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We found these two weird copper things:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/A0cAAOSwlDFde7gn/s-l500.jpgThey’re very small. About 4″ tall and 5″ wide.
We assume some kind of music instruments from another country?
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I don’t think they’re any kind of cymbals. The only thing that comes to mind are maybe they’re intended to be ring holders/display. I’m probably wrong, but they have the right shape.
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What if it’s a mold for something – either side. One side I could see for clay pots or something, the other side I have no clue (food, i.e. bread or cake)??? I’m totally just pulling things out of the air, I have no clue what they are for. I was thinking something scientific, but I can’t figure out what they’d be used for.
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gfd, when you said “clay pots”, that made me think of those african conical cooking pots, which I now know are called tagines. Could these be lids for small copper serving tagines? (cooking tagines need a hole in the top for steam to escape – something else I’ve just learned :))
https://www.netherton-foundry.co.uk/copper-tagine-lid
Seems like a stretch, but thought I’d throw it out there as a possibility.
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Yes, that was my use with clay thought, but I couldn’t think of the details. But it is a wild guess, I’ve searched around and can’t find it. My other thought was a spindle holder of some sort – kind of like those things that you put in corn to hold your corn on the cob- but much bigger scale, holding big spools of something (one on each end) – but there are no holes in them so I don’t think they would do that. But along those lines I was also thinking of something to hold on an old carriage wheel. It’s probably something really simple and basic and about 1000000000 miles away from anything I’ve said so far, but it is fun throwing out RAGs (Random Ass Guesses). Good luck with that
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They remind me of traditional Bedouin date palm weaving – where they would make something conical shaped to cover food, like dates. There is a image here: https://images.fridaymagazine.ae/1_2113038/imagesList_4/1802150512_main-embed.jpg
and in the background here:
https://imagevars.gulfnews.com/2010/7/21/1_16a07fd08ec.657620_1257600603_16a07fd08ec_large.jpg -
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