Re: what is this object?


"ie" <I_e,johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kjetil Rå Hauge" <k.r.hauge@xxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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>> ie wrote:
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>> > "Pan Am" <panam@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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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.

Dyl,


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