Re: what is this object?

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Hello,

just curious...
have you seen something like this before?
Total length 13cm (5 inches)
The bottom edge (2cm) was sharpened
Origin: Italy

http://www.imagerage.com/picture/ITp90898.jpg

TIA


Yes I have seen such here in Scandinavia. It's alike the 'modern' type 

of

small spades used to take three 'spoons' of sand/earth on the coffin 

during

burials. I have been told that the old ones(from Catholic Age in Sweden)
looking more or less exactly as the one on the photo was used by the 

pater

or priest. If in the same way as today's or not I don't know.

Inger E 

A 13 cm spade for throwing earth on the coffin? That's the size of a
small teaspoon. I'd have thought Swedish priests used more man-sized


tools.

I know it's that size. in January same size was used to throw the earth on a
coffin at the funeral of a person close to our family in a church here in
Bohuslän. Normally the long part is larger, but I have seen this size
before.



Can you explain why the OP say it was sharpened on one edge? If it's not used for scraping, a sharpened edge is not necessary.


	It is a ***-scraper.

Could the ng treasury stretch to purchase this lovely example of the genre? We could take turns using it to clean up the place.

--
Tom McDonald
http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/
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