Went out to a piece of city property next to a graveyard, may have been a park according to old maps. This was pretty shallow, nothing on the back but the edges are rolled over.
Managed to straighten it a bit and this is everything it says!
Found this very unusual Chinese / Asian -style object today that I think is a twisted lampshade or some kind of ceremonial lantern /ornament. It is super strange because it is made of some kind of natural skin or hide that was stretched over a heavy twisted metal framework and sewn with...