🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Precolumbian teapot?

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I bought this weird teapot at an antique store for $15. I'd normally guess it was a reproduction, but there is still dirt inside, which makes me think it was excavated. Does anybody know how I can identify it?

 

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[unclemac]

keep it!

 

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[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I reached out to the Carnegie Natural History museum because they have an artifact identification section. We'll see what they say.

 

[opalboy]

I have one very similar, I bought at a gem show in KC. Can‘t remember how much I paid, but I bet more than $15! The bottom looks like it was in a fire. Seems like a tourist piece from 100 years ago!

 

[EnvoyToTheMolePeople]

I have one very similar, I bought at a gem show in KC. Can‘t remember how much I paid, but I bet more than $15! The bottom looks like it was in a fire. Seems like a tourist piece from 100 years ago!

Yeah, it could also be an old souvenir. There was a lot of interest in ancient history and archeology in the early 1900s.