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Title: Trinket dish so tiny?
Post by: kidden6968 on September 22, 2012, 12:21:13 pm: This is a really nice and yet very small porcelain covered dish of some sort. I can't imagine what would fit in there as it is only 1" tall, 2 1/2" diameter and with the lid off only about 1/4" deep.

It reminds me of Japanese art but yet there are no marks.

Would anyone know what this might be or where it might be from?

I don't believe it has any age.
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Post by: mart on September 22, 2012, 01:07:17 pm: looks like one intended for rings !! like when washing dishes you take rings off !!
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Post by: kidden6968 on September 22, 2012, 01:59:15 pm: Thanks Mart and I assumed it was for jewelry but it is so darn tiny LOL
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Post by: mart on September 22, 2012, 02:37:00 pm: Wait a minute,, you said 1/4 inch deep ??
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Post by: kidden6968 on September 22, 2012, 02:38:08 pm: Yes when you take the lid off - the actually depth of the little box part is only 1/4"
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Post by: kidden6968 on September 28, 2012, 05:54:27 pm: Ok sorry just wanted to go back to this one for a minute - so if it is only 1/4" deep with the lid off do you think this would still be a trinket box or ring box?
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Post by: KC on September 28, 2012, 06:00:45 pm: Called either!
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Post by: bigwull on September 28, 2012, 06:01:36 pm: pill box perhaps....and before any smart alec says,no not the sodjee kind.... ;D
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Post by: kidden6968 on September 28, 2012, 06:02:32 pm: what's a sodjee? I have also gotten better at understanding but not this LOL
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Post by: bigwull on September 28, 2012, 06:08:37 pm: Quote from: kidden6968 on September 28, 2012, 06:02:32 pm
what's a sodjee? I have also gotten better at understanding but not this LOL
;D ;D ;D..I knew that would get you..the clue is at the beginning....pillbo x....army...soldier ....sodjee.....its Scots slang....just like coobags & ingins.= cowboys & indians... ;D
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Post by: ghopper1924 on September 28, 2012, 08:42:10 pm: "pillbo x....army...soldier ....sodjee....."

I don't like bringing up the "E" word with a Scotsman, but I had a good friend - English - from London who explained English slang the same way. You start with one word, then by a weird chain of associated words and mutations it ends up as something completely different, yet maintaining a form of the original meaning.

It seems so ideosyncratic that it amazes me that two people can understand it, much less a whole country!

Not criticising, just sayin'! Words are wonderful things.
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Post by: bigwull on September 29, 2012, 03:25:22 am: One time when i was on holiday in Germany...i got mistaken for a German trying to speak English....work that one out.... :D
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Post by: KC on September 29, 2012, 01:00:45 pm: How many pieces to this box?

The first and last look like the same (top upright and turned over)
But the 2nd pic has two pieces?
Title: Re: Trinket dish so tiny?
Post by: kidden6968 on September 29, 2012, 01:09:29 pm: KC - the first pic shows the top of the box - the 2nd shows the two pieces inside and the 3rd shows the bottom of the bottom piece if that makes sense.
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Post by: kidden6968 on September 29, 2012, 02:08:26 pm: I am going to try and get a picture of it closed from the side.