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Roy Morton
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17 years ago

I was out mooching near to an old mine site that was supposedly last worked about 1905, and came accross this.
Probably left from the assayers hut/lab. Made of thin ceramic material and has a sharp ring if tapped. The amazing thing is, there isn't a scratch on it. Is it an evaporating dish? How old is it? Is it from a later period than the last working of the mine?
If so it could mean that maybe the site was tried or prospected after closing.
Unfortunately the makers transfer print is smudged. Any clues?

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AR
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17 years ago

I think you're right in suggesting this is an evaporating dish, I vaguely remember using something similar when doing my chemistry "A" levels 20 years ago. It's certainly the right sort of material to be lab kit, I used to have a miniature funnel made of similar stuff which I "accquired" from my old university 😞 so dating it could be a problem without being able to work out the maker's mark.

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Wyn
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17 years ago

When I was still a real chemist ie working in a lab, we still used these, (dry weights of sludges etc). They haven't really changed in a long long time so hard to date. However the context you found it in looks promising.