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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 128914, member: 56&quot;]Is there wear on the ends of the pestle or on the shaft, or on the interior of the mortar?&nbsp; Is there wear on the bottom of the mortar?</p><p><br /></p><p>Things like this don&#039;t need to be polished.&nbsp; Cleaned maybe, but a thorough wipe would generally do the trick.&nbsp; They&#039;re generally used to grind dry ingredients.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a very similar one currently listed on eBay.&nbsp; Look at it in terms of wear.&nbsp; I find it more convincingly old than yours, though that doesn&#039;t mean much.&nbsp; It would take a lot of dedicated polishing to remove signs of wear.&nbsp; (A lot less effort to add them.)</p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18th-19th-Century-Dutch-Bronze-Brass-Mortar-and-Pestle-/151959304306" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18th-19th-Century-Dutch-Bronze-Brass-Mortar-and-Pestle-/151959304306" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/18th-19th-Century-Dutch-Bronze-Brass-Mortar-and-Pestle-/151959304306</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This would have been a utilitarian object and not handled particularly gently.</p><p><br /></p><p>The shape has been in use for a long time.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you are still in doubt, I don&#039;t know that there&#039;s a lot you can do other than get another opinion with a hands-on inspection by someone knowledgeable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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