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Message:: [QUOTE="clutteredcloset49, post: 216244, member: 85"]You are saying that the back is rough, which to me implies that it is probably cast.I don't think they would have cast copper.  More likely bronze.  Guessing late 1800s to 19teens. I'm just suppositioning:You say Dad is 82 and received it as a teenager and grandma was an antiques dealer.So Dad received it in the early 50s.  At which time, items that your grandmother was picking up would have been from the early to late 1800s, possibly earlier.  I tend to doubt that items from late 1800s to early 1900s would have been considered antiques at that time.  She probably did not consider it to be of high value, since she was probably born in the early 1900s.  Just like we do not consider items from the 1940s-50s to be considered antiques as that is when many of us were born.I kind of think Collectibles were not of much interest in the 50s. Not saying this is how it is, just might be.[/QUOTE]