Help with a trinket containing a red paste.

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  1. Giuseppe65

    Giuseppe65 Active Member

    Hello
    I would like to have your help with this trinket containing a red paste.
    Is it Chinese? What is it the red paste? A lipstick?
    Thanks 1.jpg 11.jpg 111.jpg
     
    Giuseppe65, Feb 6, 2021
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  2. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I have one, not as deep as yours looks and contents are drier (is yours still damp?)

    Mine is an ink pot.
     
    Bakersgma, Feb 6, 2021
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  3. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    WAG, sealing wax?
     
    i need help, Feb 6, 2021
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  4. Giuseppe65

    Giuseppe65 Active Member

    Yes, it is still damp. Is it Chinese?
     
    Giuseppe65, Feb 6, 2021
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  5. Giuseppe65

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    I do not know. It doesn't look like wax to me.
     
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  6. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Probably, although yours is unmarked, Mine is marked for export from China.
     
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  7. blooey

    blooey Well-Known Member

    You use the red stuff to ink up a seal and plop it onto your thingy to ID it.
     
    blooey, Feb 6, 2021
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  8. Giuseppe65

    Giuseppe65 Active Member

    Thanks
     
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  9. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Beautifully put :hilarious:
     
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  10. 2manybooks

    2manybooks Well-Known Member

    Chinese seal paste - made of castor oil, cinnabar (mercury sulfide), and either finely shredded silk fibers or dried and ground leaves of Chinese wormwood/Artemisia argyi. Best not to use it as a lipstick. :eek::vomit::dead:
     
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  11. Giuseppe65

    Giuseppe65 Active Member

    Woowww
    And I had a finger in it!!!!!:wideyed::wideyed::wideyed::wideyed:
     
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  12. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    looks a bit like that sharp Moroccan paste for cooking.
     
    Fid, Feb 7, 2021
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