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Topic: Tea strainer

Paul Lemieux

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Registered: Apr 2000

posted 03-08-2007 01:03 AM

It's not silver, but I thought somebody might have a clue about this old flatware piece. It is brass tea strainer, made (rather crudely in some places) by hand. The handle features three stamped, coin-like motifs as well as other stamped shapes. The "coins" feature a stamped double eagle with some kind of letter or character on its chest. There are also some characters a long the bottom edges of the coins, but they just look like 1s and 0s to me.

The thing has kind of a German feel to me, but I'm not really sure. It also seems to be quite old, perhaps late 18C or early 19C.

Any ideas?

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