Erotic Art Find-Can you help ID?

[brianc577]

Found this in Michigan, appears to be habdmade. I do know what it depicts ), can anyone tel lme what its use was, what its orgin might be, or age estimate.

Thanks for your input

 

[BillF]

Not sure what its made of but sort of looks like a boot pull.

 

[brianc577]

The item is brass and about 3 inches tall. That item at the top is a standard butter knife. Too small for a boot pull. I appreciate the input.

 

[Woodstock]

My gut says it's a native American Indian neck less charm of some kind from the bronze period , a late friend of mine searched and found bronze spearheads in Northern Wisconsin . Where in Michigan was it found and were any Indian tribes in this area ? Just a idea to research .... Woodstock

 

[flinthunter]

It looks like a cast piece from your pictures. Can you tell us if it was cut and hammered into that shape or was it cast (formed in a mold)? I really don't see any connection with Native Americans if the piece was cast.

If there is a chance it is possibly a Copper Culture pendant (5000 to 6000 years old) it is considered extremely rare and will be quite valuable. Until you find out if this is Native American or not, please DO NOT clean the green patina off of this piece. A harsh cleaning will destroy most of its value.

There may be several artifact shows every year in your area depending where you live. Taking it to one of the shows might help get it identified.

 

[glenn3-88]

My first impression was "TRENCH ART" from the war and could possibly be that.
Not that the war was up there but it could have been made overseas by one of
our troops and brought home and lost many years ago.

However, I have no idea of what it is. You kind of have to take something like this
and by process of elimination try to deduce what it "could" have been.

1. As old as it is, and what it appears to be, it would indicate a man had it, or at least wore it.
2. It being made out of something like brass or copper (just looking at the petina) it could have
come from a war item as both brass and copper were widely used in ww1 & 2.
3. It definitely was a pendant and was worn around the neck due to the hole in the top of it.

****Question, is her backside flat or is it contoured as the front of it is?

Lastly, what I have deduced from the above has no bearing on what it actually is. However,
if we start asking some of these questions about the item, I think it will lead you to the right
person to ask about it. Woodstock and Flinthunter both have very strong cases just from
the pictures you have given. Give us some more information about it and another thing,
was it found at a park, old homestead, out in the field and if so was it found on a hill in the
field and was there a creek nearby? The reason I ask this is I found an old Native American
boundary marker in a field on top of a hill that was very near a creek that ran through my land
where he had divided his property. It even had the river on it and it matched the curves in the
river behind my house and even showed where the lakes were.

 

[osgood]

Cool find, does the hole at the top of the head look like it was done by a machine? Can you create features like the bosom ( can i say that?) if you were hammering the piece? Good hunts all, CO

 

[Woodstock]

Maybe it's was made by someone either it's a original or copy of a Fertility piece meaning it's origin is tribal from Africa or South America ??? Just a though ... woodstock

 

[Sonorguy]

Sorta like this... fertility doll ?

 

[1859large]

Looks like it is cast and maybe 1960s. The indian copper culture was cold hammered native (natural) copper and not cast.

A cool find.

HH