Postby silverport » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:17 pm
A recently made sand castor — for the uprising market of a pseudo »Judaism«?
Hello Sergio
It seems to me a recently made item for the uprising market of a pseudo »Judaism«.
The central corpus could be a copy of to be a sand castor — for to dry just with ink written “text”; usual until XIX century. If my guess is correct, then there must be below the flapping lid a removable “sieve”; and the lid must be marked too.
I’ve my doubts that the item would be in his whole a copy of a historical item — instead of this, it seems to me, to be a composition of fantasy.
Rats, in the Jewish belief an impure animal, set in relation to David’s star and the Russian eagle. One of the rats acts like as the “wise monkeys” — the other like as a climbing ships carpenter with his axe (an illustration on town’s founder, the Tsar »Peter the Great«?).
Or more precise, as already »oel« was wondering, a discriminating caricature?!
I’m wondering too, how the marks were struck on the flat surface itself; like as a decorative texture — and the »St. Petersburg« marks punch looks like to be recently made by a not experienced engraver.
Subjective resume: I state, it’s a modern caricature.
Kind regards silverport