Heavy duty mortar and pestle

Discussion in 'Metalware' started by Dean Anderson, Sep 7, 2018.

  1. Dean Anderson

    Dean Anderson Well-Known Member

    This thing is solid brass and weighs about 20 pounds and no markings that I can find.

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    No idea what its use was, other than the obvious! To pound the *$#@^&!% out of something! Haha!
     
    Dean Anderson, Sep 7, 2018
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  2. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

    clutteredcloset49, Sep 7, 2018
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  3. Dean Anderson

    Dean Anderson Well-Known Member

    Don't see how it could be a piston. But what I don't know, far outweighs what I do know!
     
    Dean Anderson, Sep 7, 2018
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  4. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    I don't think it's a mortar and pestle or a piston, but I reckon you sure as hell could use it as a mortar and pestle.

    I assume that the 'pestle' bit fits/slides inside the 'mortar' bit?

    For all we know, it might be. Some minimalist design or whatever...
     
    Shangas, Sep 7, 2018
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  5. springfld.arsenal

    springfld.arsenal Store: http://www.springfieldarsenal.net/

    Sry, no idea, looks like something made by a home machinist, what he had in mind IHNI.
     
    springfld.arsenal, Sep 7, 2018
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  6. Dean Anderson

    Dean Anderson Well-Known Member

    Took a closer look at the inside of the mortar. The bottom is not flat, it's concave. The pestle is flat on both ends and does have a sloppy fit in the mortar.
     
    Dean Anderson, Sep 7, 2018
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  7. TallCakes

    TallCakes Well-Known Member

    similar to plattner mortar pestle
     
    TallCakes, Sep 7, 2018
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  8. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    Could be an unfinished project? Some homemade metalwork thing?
     
    Shangas, Sep 7, 2018
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