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Title: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: wargamer1972 on July 27, 2013, 08:51:38 PM

Bought this for $3 at a local thrift shop.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iOMsL1C-fuM/UfQjoccVLMI/AAAAAAAADOg/Wl-XTD1Ketk/s800/IMG_2293.JPG)

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: Chairface on July 28, 2013, 01:15:16 AM

Great buy!

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: Craig on July 28, 2013, 09:23:20 AM

Very Chinese - always worth looking at the shelf of knick-knacks then.

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: Red Orc on July 28, 2013, 11:26:48 AM

I'm always looking for stuff like this... Chinese statues, Buddhas, Greek stuff... I never find any though. Nice find!

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: The_Beast on July 28, 2013, 01:26:05 PM

I'm so bad; I'd want two.  :D

Really, a great find; I do browse the knick-knacks every visit, but spend most time in the toy section. I assume folks take one look at me, and think 'old greybeard on the hunt for his grandchildren.' 

They can find their own goodies! lol

Doug

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: Roebeast45 on July 29, 2013, 07:01:09 AM

I might be totally off but I think that it's a signature stamp. One of the stores in our local mall, the same one that sold shuriken and nunchaku, used to sell them. You carve your signature character into the bottom and use it to sign documents.

Or use it for wargame terrain. Either way.

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: The_Beast on July 29, 2013, 03:08:16 PM

Thanks, fellow Beast!

I shall have to check out the local version, as soon as one again opens in the mall. They have a TERRIBLE life span.  ;)

Doug

Title: Re: Obelisk Found at Thrift Shop
Post by: FramFramson on July 29, 2013, 03:11:31 PM

Yes, that definitely looks like a signature stamp.