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sf[_3_]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:29 +0000 (UTC),
(Steve Pope) wrote:

>sf > wrote:
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> wrote:
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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.
>
>>Honest, Nan... I don't see how it could *strain* tea. Tea leaves will
>>*flow* through those slits.
>
>Hypothesis: in past decades they did not cut up tea leaves into
>as small pieces.
>
Until, proven wrong.... I'll buy that premise. LOL

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