"Steve Wertz" > wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 00:39:01 GMT, wff_ng_7 wrote:
>
>> It's a clam steamer from sometime in the 1800s.
>
> Nah - that's not it. Give me some more time and I'll get it
> eventually.
>
> -sw <thinking>

The person that sold it to me said it was a clam steamer and gave the date as
being 1850s.

The interior has a perforated insert that sits on the mid level ridge. There was
also a second smaller perforated insert that sat on the lower ridge, but it is
missing. Two things could be steamed at once, sort of like those multi-level
Chinese bamboo steamers.

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