16th century, $100k combination toothpick / ear wax spoon
Combed from the black muck of subaqueous depths by scuva diving treasure hunters, this gold toothpick / ear wax scoop dates from the wreck of a Spanish galleon dating back to the late 16th Century. Don't mix up the ends.
Tiny Gold Combined Toothpick and Earwax Spoon [Far East Gizmos]
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While scuba diving, I found a similiar item; brilliantly gold, less ornate in design, but of a horse/unicorn about the same size. It has been in a safety deposit box for years. Where does one go to get things like this appraised.
That's... lovely. I saw it and thought, how pretty! Then read the title and squirmed at the idea of mixing up the ends, then read the post and chuckled.
I remember one the other day... a golden dragon combining bosun's whistle and ear-spoon.
Tut tut, remember the old doctor's adage:
Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.
an Indonesian ear cleaner made of silver is only fifty cents...if you go to the silver mines near Yogya.
I have one of these, but I use it to pick my nose. It works great.
#5 - yes, but it's probably newly made. A silver one 400 years old would probably be worth more than fifty cents...
People sure had class back then. Nowadays, women wear pants and men sometimes don't wear suits, but you go back far enough and people picked their ears with gold. Classy.
Whoever said it's Spanish: I'm sure they're right because you don't go randomly saying that for no reason. But I notice two things:
1. It's an ear wax scraper. While European gene pools produce wet ear wax, Asian gene pools produce dry ear wax. I know some nice old systems were developed in the east for scraping it out. I didn't think the scraper was the preferred method in the west, where the gunk is treated more like a liquid to be coaxed out. But what do I know?
2. It has dragons on it.
So lets hear it from the experts. What makes this scraper Spanish?
He said it came from a Spanish galleon. Those were frequently full of treasure bartered, bought, or plundered from other nations. No reason it wouldn't be Asian and from a Spanish galleon. In fact, the page it's on is Far East Gizmos..