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What is it for mechanical slide wisk? Sterling Buddah finial
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:08 pm
by RS
Hello everyone, What was this used for? any ideas? Works somewhat like a antique slide pencil, wire prongs slide out of shaft, looks like a stirring item. Any help will be appreciated. Marked Sterling
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:37 pm
by dragonflywink
Swizzle stick.
~Cheryl
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swizzle stick in Japanese tea ceremony
Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:53 pm
by silverport
Hello
I've seen in use something similar in an Ethnographic Museum during a public explanation and presentation of a Japanese tea ceremony.
There were so many visitors - so it was impossible to could see and study details.
An association between Buddha and Champagne seems to me is more irrelevant then Buddha and tea.
If you don’t have a swizzle-stick for yours Champagne? Why not use this?
Kind regards silverport
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:11 am
by dragonflywink
It's a swizzle stick, pretty common form and almost certainly post-WWII Japanese, they were produced with various finials (fans, pagodas, etc.) and sometimes sold in boxed sets of six.
~Cheryl
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:32 am
by SebastianBaird
I think it is used to froth a beverage.
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Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:21 pm
by dragonflywink
Could certainly be used for any purpose desired, but they were and are marketed as retractable swizzle sticks, intended to stir up the bubbles in Chanpagne or stirring cocktails. They suppposedly date back to the 1920s-30s, but most that I've run across over the years (in silver, gold and other metals) seem to have dated from the '40s or later. Not particularly uncommon, they are still produced by numerous makers.
~Cheryl
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