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"Dylan Sung" <dylanwhs.tsktsktsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i
meddelandet news:ddb7ia$u8p$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "ie" <I_e,johansson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:rZ8Ke.31087$d5.184128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > "Kjetil Rå Hauge" <k.r.hauge@xxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i
meddelandet
> > news:42f8fc4e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> ie wrote:
> >>
> >> > "Pan Am" <panam@xxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet
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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.
>
>
> Can you explain why the OP say it was sharpened on >one
edge?
That is easy. Because th OP has made the observation
that it is sharpened on one edge.
>If it's not
> used for scraping, a sharpened edge is not necessary.
>
Ask the one who made it.
> Dyl,
>
JerryT
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