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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:54:30 -0500, Tom McDonald
<tmcdonald2672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Dylan Sung wrote:
>> "ie" <I_e,johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:rZ8Ke.31087$d5.184128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>"Kjetil Rå Hauge" <k.r.hauge@xxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
>>>news:42f8fc4e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>>ie wrote:
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>>>>>"Pan Am" <panam@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
>>>>>news:1123591654.c14ebb47dae500f614154a370570cd7d@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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.
>>
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>> 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 shit-scraper.
... aaah - to go along with our shit stirrers.
>
> Could the ng treasury stretch to purchase this lovely example of
>the genre? We could take turns using it to clean up the place.
Eric Stevens
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