Too flimsy for an ice pick. That is a scriber if I've ever seen one. Maybe you could scratch stuff on a pipe after turning the valve, I guess,...
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Looks a lot like a scriber, but I've never seen one on a valve key...there's a common carpenter square that has a similar scriber: [ATTACH]
Yes; I'd just call them "veins." they can be associated with weakness or cracks in soapstone, but usually not, and these do appear to be of the...
I think for sure Barn-Owl got it, for #2.
#2, South America would be a good guess; souvenir-quality; I'm guessing the scale is not a conventional western scale (that is, it might not sound...
Drums are not my thing, but I think SIS found some useful information!
For sure it is a musical/percussion slit drum; hard to say where it was made though. Complicating the google searching is the fact that a lot of...
And alibaba sells carved bamboo-root faces, apparently from Viet Nam, though I don't see any with the slit-drum feature.
Slit drums are found in a lot of cultures, so I'd think it could come from anywhere bamboo root is available; and a search for "slit drum carved...
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