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What is this thing?

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Found this at an estate sale. It’s like a bowl that’s 3/4 covered. I thought it might be a dried flower vase for a wall, but there’s no place on the back to hang it. No inventions for smokables. Anyone have any ideas what it is?

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[–] makeshiftreaper 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have zero experience with pottery or Finland so this is just a guess: possibly a necklace display piece? It has a shape like you'd display a necklace on and the black ovals could be good contrast for jewelry?

[–] MaddestMax 2 points 3 weeks ago

Good guess. I could definitely see it being used as a display piece.