Can anyone tell me what this is?

[Sunshine]

I took this pic in an antique store in Virginia. I was going to inquire, but got into buying a pair of aquamarine earrings and completely forgot.

 

[AmyNation]

Reverse inamge search your photo in google, it may lead you to a site that has that item.

 

[Ringel05]

Reverse inamge search your photo in google, it may lead you to a site that has that item.

She took the picture in the store................

 

[Si modo]

I can't even hazard a guess.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I think it's a hat, but I could be wrong

 

[Big Black Dog]

It is a device used most commonly in the medical treatment of circus elephants. It is affixed to an elephant's foreskin to stretch it out while they circumcise the elephant. They are very rare and you don't seem many of them now days as the practice of circumcising elephants has pretty much gone by the wayside.

 

[AmyNation]

Reverse inamge search your photo in google, it may lead you to a site that has that item.

She took the picture in the store................

I know, but googles reverse image search doesn't just look for the identical pic, but anything similar.

 

[Truthmatters]

was it made of brass?

 

[Ringel05]

I took this pic in an antique store in Virginia. I was going to inquire, but got into buying a pair of aquamarine earrings and completely forgot.

Just a shot in the dark but I'm thinking Mezoamerican. Could be completely wrong but that's the impression I was left with when I saw it.

 

[Si modo]

Reverse inamge search your photo in google, it may lead you to a site that has that item.

She took the picture in the store................

I know, but googles reverse image search doesn't just look for the identical pic, but anything similar.

I tried it and got zip.

 

[Ringel05]

She took the picture in the store................

I know, but googles reverse image search doesn't just look for the identical pic, but anything similar.

I tried it and got zip.

Yeah, e yo.

 

[Sunshine]

was it made of brass?

I believe. It is a bit too light colored to be bronze.

 

[Truthmatters]

Possibly a meditation stool

 

[Sunshine]

She took the picture in the store................

I know, but googles reverse image search doesn't just look for the identical pic, but anything similar.

I tried it and got zip.

It was in the antique store almost next door to the Vienna Inn restaurant.

Vienna Inn - serving the locals of Vienna, Virginia since 1960

I don't recall the name of the store. There were a couple side by side.

 

[Truthmatters]

Are the black marks Voids or some stone?

 

[Ringel05]

The other thing, if it's brass then it wouldn't be original Mezoamerican, (could be a copy) or it could simply be Chinese in origin but I don't remember seeing anything resembling that in the far east.

 

[Sunshine]

Are the black marks Voids or some stone?

Voids.

 

[Wry Catcher]

I took this pic in an antique store in Virginia. I was going to inquire, but got into buying a pair of aquamarine earrings and completely forgot.

Just a shot in the dark but I'm thinking Mezoamerican. Could be completely wrong but that's the impression I was left with when I saw it.

It's actually a politician from antiquity. He had his head so far up his ass he didn't notice the volcanic eruption and was sealed in molten lava. A craftsmen later made a mold and encased him in brass to assure future pols would avoid putting their head so far up their ass. Sadly, Congress never got the memo.

 

[Sunshine]

Possibly a meditation stool

It isn't large. Look in the background at that china for comparison of size.

It also looks to have been 'cast.' But I don't know for sure.

 

[Sunshine]

The other thing, if it's brass then it wouldn't be original Mezoamerican, (could be a copy) or it could simply be Chinese in origin but I don't remember seeing anything resembling that in the far east.

I didn't see anything like it in the far east either.