No, and OCR programs can't read/translate scrawled calligraphy. But it's probably a common Zen character for Original Mind, or Great Perfection,...
Excellent! Thank you. Now I see the two arms of the K.
I picked up this 5.6" jam/relish (?) spoon at a yard sale this past weekend for 50 cents. It was totally blackened by tarnish. Stamped...
I'd say Japanese Zen calligraphy, but the meaning eludes me.
Looks like Coptic to me.
This collection of 50 pipe bowls appeared on eBay in 2008. Buy it Now price was $2,500. I almost went for it, but didn’t . . . and then it was...
@bosko69 I have no idea how much that Maggs collection sold for, but I would think a million or more. If I'd been a multi-multi-millionaire I...
Looks good, bosko69! I agree with kryatango's "A pretty tourist piece (I've yet to see genuine pipes with those assembled bone plaques...)",...
highly recommended: Maggs opium collection video, on Google Drive (a few years old):...
@komokwa I've read in a few places that if & when smokers in the old days finally quit, it was the soft glow of the lamp that they missed more...
@ bosko69 Come to think of it, there is one other type of small box that was also exclusively used for carrying around your opium paste (chandu)....
That one I have with the residue inside was from a collection of 14 that came from Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd (Hong Kong) when they...
Yes, the only way to know for sure is if there is old residue inside, which is very rare. I have maybe 20 boxes of different styles and only one...
and another, back in the day: [ATTACH]
@ komokwa The "opium weights" shown in that thread (more accurately called Burmese animal weights, because they were used for much more than...
For bosko69 and Figtree3: I put that collection together over the past 25 years, from estate sales and eBay purchases. Opium items were much more...
Oh yeah, the other side of the tag: [ATTACH]
Here are five opium pipes I got several years ago from a guy in Naperville, Il. They are typical of the inexpensive but functional pipes used in...
The new information was "yes, definitely Thai writing." That had not been determined before. And here is a suggestion, too (if OP/Joanne Mayfield...
It's a Thai benjarong ("5 color") vase, with images from the Thai Ramakien (Ramayana in India). Interesting (to me, anyway) that "benja" (five)...
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