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The pictured item 4 1/2 inches high by 7 5/8 inches in diameter.
(Photo: Skinner, Inc.)
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I believe this is an incense burner or a pot a Catholic Priest uses during the service.
I believe this to be an incense burner or one of those smoking pots the Priests use in Catholic Churches.
This is a Chinese hand warmer. It’s brass with a flat openwork cover and double-strap handle. Read all the answers you sent our way!
It is a cricket box.
It’s a brass cricket “box”
It’s a cricket “box.”
It’s not very large, but it looks like it could be some kind of warmer that you would put hot coals in and the heat would generate through the metal.
It’s a censer.
A hot ash dispenser.
How do I get to see the I.D. of the previous weeks’
whatsit? I never see a way to access it. Thanks!
Handled Brass Hand Warmer
I have a larger one, acquired from my grandmothers aunt, who as a young girl/likely teen, helped and visited the Chinese workers in the Central Valley of Ca. with her physician employer.
It’s an Asian brass cricket box
Hand/foot warmer
This is a Chinese Hand/Foot Warmer. Originally used in Carriages & Sleighs to keep you nice and toasty !
Incense Burner or something a priest would use in a ceremony
Incense burner
Chinese hand of foot warmer
This is a Chinese hand warmer. Coals were placed inside and the warmer was carried for warmth on cold days. These were made of various metals; this one appears to be made of paktong,, a Chinese alloy.
…floral “frog” to me…
Stove top humidifier either for kitchen wood/coal stove or potbelly stove. Add water and put on stove to relieve dryness during winter months.
When ladies combed their hair, what came out would be saved in this.
I believe it is an incense burner.
It looks like an incense burner from the 70’s when so much of the brass from India was popular.
Incence burner or possible a fumigator to be filled with herbs/flowers with ante animal or insect properties.
Hand Warmer
It appears to be a Chinese “Foot Warmer”.
Incense burner
Hat pin holder
Looks like an incense burner or pomander.
Incense pot
It looks like some type of heat warmer made of brass