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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Shangas, post: 128487, member: 360&quot;]I know! That&#039;s what bothers me... And no I didn&#039;t polish this, if that&#039;s what you&#039;re wondering. This is how it came to me. I took these photographs about an hour after it came through my front door (and I wrestled with the packaging for about 30 of those 60 minutes).</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy who told me this said that someone had obviously cleaned it (and there&#039;s still traces of lacquer on it from where it was applied, you can see it if you hold it up to the light). I asked him about six times and he was adamant that this thing is at least 300 years old. He said once he finds it, he&#039;ll send me more information that I can have a look at. He told me that the style and methods of construction pointed towards its age. The lathe marks, the wearing on the decorations, the condition of the rings on the base (which he said also had significance as being characteristic of certain braziers) and so-forth.</p><p><br /></p><p>To his credit he does collect antique brass&amp;bronzeware (and much older than anything that I own) so he may well be right. And I can understand and follow his train of reasoning...I just want a few other opinions first, or at least more information. He pointed out numerous antique Dutch brass examples online to show me the similarities between them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there anyone here on this forum that knows anything about antique Dutch brass?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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