On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:09:15 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
> wrote:

>On Apr 26, 11:56*pm, sf <.> wrote:
>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:09:08 -0700, Mark Thorson >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I was thinking about bidding on this, but it's so small
>> >and not particularly fine or attractive. *When it was
>> >at $9.99, I thought about it. *When it passed $30,
>> >I knew I wasn't going to bid. *The silver has cutouts,
>> >but it's not engraved or anything.
>>
>> >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=310042750319
>>
>> >$128.50? *I don't understand that at all.
>>
>> That was the winning bid. *If it's sterling, the price would be high
>> retail. *It sounds like another case of EBay buyers going crazy.
>>
>> Do you believe the "strainer" part? *I think it was another device for
>> sprinkling powdered sugar.
>>
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>No, it's a tea strainer used to strain loose tea out of a pot of
>brewed tea. There are lots of them that are antique, silver, some
>with wood handles, some without, and many are figural. Highly desired
>by collectors of such.
>
>N.

Honest, Nan... I don't see how it could *strain* tea. Tea leaves will
*flow* through those slits.

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