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French Antique Guessing Game

 

 

French Antique Guessing Game

This is how it works:

1) Guess what the above item is in the comment section or by email as often as you want.

2) If you haven't a clue, make something up, the more original the better, roach clip included (inside joke around here due to some hippie like readers….

3) The first person to correctly guess the object wins. The most creative answer wins too.

4) Wins something Fun and French.

5) Winners announced tomorrow evening.

 

xxxx

 

Hand painted porcelain

1900s

about six inches high.

 

Good Luck!

 

PS Kirk no cheating!

Comments

96 responses to “French Antique Guessing Game”

  1. Marilyn

    Oh my! My first thought was a traveling potty holder for a little one.

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  2. Kipper

    Urinal or a butternut squash holder

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  3. s/e

    wine bottle holder

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  4. Diogenes

    A shoehorn for a glass slipper?
    But maybe a thing you put a candle in, for light to walk around the house.

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  5. Jacklynn Lantry

    A bidet for a little person…

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  6. Mahala Elliott

    A spoon or spatula holder.

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  7. Patti

    Nightlight candle carrier.

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  8. Patti

    Or a bidet/spa for a mouse. Can’t you just imagine her laying contentedly against the high back and sipping a tiny glass of wine?

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  9. Laurie SF

    A baker’s flour scoop?

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  10. Toni

    sippy cup for an invalid with a nurse and a napkin

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  11. pc brown

    Ladle rest, or a rest for the world’s widest pipe!

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  12. Patricia

    A wee fairy bathtub! Probably a wealthy fairy!

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  13. Debbie Z.

    I think it is a shaving soap/brush holder. A little pretty for that, yes, and yet they made almost everything pretty back then!

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  14. ChicagoSheila

    Oh those French dog lovers! Plastic bags aren’t good enough for them… It’s a pooper scooper. Duh.

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  15. lanmangina@me.com

    A shaving cup or dish. To be held under a man’s chin to catch suds from the shaving lather.

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  16. dee

    Love Patti’s sense of humor 🙂
    How about this: they passed it around the table for the tips to be collected? Eh?

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  17. Merry

    I think this is a candle holder and it is slightly rounded to keep the flame from blowing out.

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  18. lanmangina@me.com

    what happened to my post I posted that it was a shaving cup or dish… ???

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  19. lanmangina@me.com

    sorry now i see it

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  20. Sherryn

    It’s a scoop. Perhaps a scooper of flower petals & buds to make perfume.

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  21. Barbara Blizzard

    Tea infuser holder.

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  22. Cheri Hansen

    I believe it is a shaving mug…Cheri H

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  23. Diana prevot

    A spoon for broth

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  24. Robin Williams

    A lady’s private potty

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  25. Elle

    A hand held bath for washing ones beard.

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  26. Julie W.

    It is beautiful! How about a Tea Cooling Cup–tidier than pouring tea in the saucer to cool it.

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  27. Tongue in Cheek

    lol, nope!

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  28. Tongue in Cheek

    Double no. 🙂

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  29. Tongue in Cheek

    I could see these answers as possible, but so far none are the correct answer.

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  30. Tongue in Cheek

    Clever but nope.

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  31. Diogenes

    For a serving of ice cream?

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  32. Liana Munden

    How about a false teeth holder!

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  33. Sue Gordon

    A beautiful dish to feed a beautiful baby.

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  34. Jenine

    I have no idea what this is, but it is just lovely! If I had found it at a brocante I would have thought…hmmm…..that’s interesting…. I could use this as a candy dish!

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  35. Dd

    I’m going to say candle holder.
    It’s too beautiful for all t crazy thoughts going through my head!

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  36. Ina

    C’est un lounge chair for the soup ladel at the table … so it stands upright and doesn’t drown in the terrine that holds the soup to serve at the table … a gadget for this and for that … serve ware for each and every thing!

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  37. Ina

    It’s a soup LADLE holder!

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  38. Melanie R.

    A water dish for a cat or dog.

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  39. Linda V

    Why it is the royal tea sipping cup, they cannot sip it from a saucer so it is poured into this beautiful holder to cool. But of course they should not sip, that would not be the royal thing to do so it is poured into a second cup for the royal highness to drink.
    OR………it is for the royal ” hind -ness” but surely not, ha-ha-ha.

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  40. Doris

    it is to rinse your fingers off between courses of dinner

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  41. Tami Hacker

    Is it a ladle holder for cooking?

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  42. sisyid@gmail.com

    Is it to soak your wooden dentures in?

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  43. Brenda, Walker, LA

    A spoon rest, with handle to taste and test the flavor!

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  44. Jennie

    A urinal for boy fairies.

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  45. Frank Levin

    The comment box ate my first post. This is an early attemp at designing a Demi-tasse cup. It was self-regulating in that when the liquid reached the half-cup level it spilled out on to the table. Eventually the designer figured out that if the entire rim of the cup was terminated at the half-cup level that quantity could be regulated without the mess of this design. The rest is history.

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  46. SusieQ

    It is so beautiful that it is surely for the dining table. My husband’s guess is a master salt cellar with a handle for easy passing. My guess is a receptacle for olive pits or fruit pits.
    Regardless, I love it.

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  47. Jacklynn Lantry

    I like the idea of a soup ladle holder…a ladle cradle!

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  48. Beverly

    A toilet bowl brush holder!

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  49. Bonnie Schulte

    A holder for gravy drips, when you pass around the gravy bowl, with the spoon,, the spoon will drip into this pretty whatever, instead of back into the gravy.

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  50. WR

    Antique Barbie bidet…

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  51. Michele Ecklund

    It is for salt or sugar.

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  52. Kirk

    This is so easy. I had no problem at all imagining Patti’s mouse leaning back, relaxing in a warm bath. Aaaah this is the life. More wine please.

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  53. Ali

    I think it’s for separating oil out of another liquid. The oil pours off and the heavier liquid stays in the small bulb part. Does this make sense to anyone?
    Ali

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  54. Judi

    Madame Amaro’s physician was absolutely resolved that she reduce her intake of caffeine, but the obstinate woman was not cooperating. In addition, as a woman of style, there was no way she was going to give up her daily ritual of hosting friends at her home, with hot, dark coffee and incredible sweets, served on her precious antique porcelain.
    Her clever husband, the ever handsome and inventive Yann, commissioned a local artist to create the perfect solution.
    This beauty is the result. Madame Amaro can indulge in the smallest sip of her beloved coffee, while still maintaining the style and elegance for which she is known.
    Or something like that, LOL!

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  55. Karen in Michigan

    It’s a half a cup. You know–for when Aunt Doris says, “I’ll just have half a cup.”

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  56. Irene Thomas

    Obviously, a tea leaf reader’s cup.

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  57. Mahala Elliott

    Could it be a hairbrush holder for the vanity?

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  58. Mahala Elliott

    Is it an ashtray?

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  59. Janet Eiffel

    Probably a holder for Queen Victoria’s
    hair brush and comb on her dressing table.
    Of course it matched her bowl and pitcher.

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  60. Nadine Wong

    Possibly a shaving dish. The soap bar sits in the bottom and the bristle brush rests on top of the soap.

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  61. Mahala Elliott

    It sure would make a fancy butter dish.

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  62. Mahala Elliott

    Soap dish?

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  63. Janus

    It’s a kitchen utensil. You hold it with one hand while you skim the fat off the soup (or whatever) and place it in the bowl part. The tall part protects you from splashes.

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  64. P

    I hope that the nasty fires near you are not cussing you any problems!

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  65. Laura

    An egg separator, maybe??! Or a spoon rest, perhaps. Or just a very pretty thing-a-ma-jig. Yup, that’s it for sure.

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  66. JudyMac

    Could it be a hair receiver? Or possibly hold a powder puff? If for a dining table, a depository for fish bones, etc.? Holder of a small bottle of some sort for, say, vinegar?

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  67. JudyMac

    A holder for a glass baby milk bottle?

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  68. lil

    A fancy measuring cup for pantry supplies such as flour and sugar?

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  69. Victoria Ramos

    A salesman sample ….. Or a holy water scooper at church when you need to sneak some….. 🙂

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  70. JudyMac

    Anything to do with flower petals!

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  71. Momof5

    A calling card holder?

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  72. Leigh NZ

    I think it’s Marie Antoinette’s “Shewee” female urinating device of fine porcelain used during nature stops while traveling about the countryside by carriage. No self respecting aristocratic lady would be caught dead without one.

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  73. JudyMac

    Escargot ?

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  74. Elaine

    Portable holy water 😇

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  75. Linny

    Could it be a blood letting catcher?

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  76. Melanie R.

    It is a holder for whipped cream for hot chocolate.

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  77. Kris Paul

    I think it is a gravy/sauce boat with room for a ladle or to pour from.

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  78. Kris Paul

    It must be a ladle holder.

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  79. Andrea

    I will resist my insider knowledge!

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  80. Julie W.

    Could it possibly hold a small round of cheese?

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  81. Dd

    Wine taster

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  82. Amylia

    Does it hold olive pits? Dentures? Shoes for a doll?

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  83. Jennifer McCracken

    A shaving brush holder!

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  84. Jennifer McCracken

    Make that a shaving soap and brush holder!

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  85. Ina

    It is for making Annie’s rose jelly … you dollop the hot jelly on it and tip it to see if it will set upon cooling … yup … that’s it!

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  86. Amelia Durbin

    It’s a hairpin holder.

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  87. Leslie Lee

    Is it a flour scoop?

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  88. Leslie Lee

    Or maybe a sugar scoop – for measuring

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  89. Leslie Lee

    How about a soup ladle????

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  90. LauraInSeattle

    For carrying a bit of coal or ash to another room to start a new fire or light a new candle? Maybe?
    I love these guessing games! Thanks, Corey!

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  91. Jacklynn Lantry

    Some kind of spitoon?

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  92. Jacklynn Lantry

    Sorry, it’s spelled spittoon (also known as a cuspidor.)

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  93. Patti

    Could it be to hold rings and other jewels at bed time?

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  94. Sue Young

    A used teabag collector

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  95. Jerilyn Denny

    To hold tea bags once the desired strength has been achieved? It prevents tea stains from beautiful table linens…help me Lord!!!

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  96. betsy

    Eyewash basin?? Very pretty.
    Betsy

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