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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 41770, member: 54&quot;]I&#039;m gonna guess that it is mid-20th C. when lots of bronze mortar and pestle sets about that size were made in many different styles.&nbsp; Those made without figural decoration, like yours, were probably made for actual use and more toward mid-20th C.&nbsp; Those with four lions or gargoyles around the sides were late 20th C. or later and are probably still made.&nbsp; Yours is good quality workmanship, cast then lathe-turned, but I don&#039;t think you will be able to get a much earlier dating guess in the absence of markings of any kind.&nbsp; Yours would have come with a cast-bronze pestle.&nbsp; The bronze mortar-and-pestle set is a popular tourist souvenir item in many countries so it is hard to tell if this one was made for that or for grinding herbs etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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