Antique mudball
Comments: 8
Two years would count as antique, wouldn’t it, for a mudball?
Going through one of her treasure boxes the other day, my daughter found a mudball she’d made two years ago after school one day. The thing has taken on a beautiful patina of oxidised age. Little chips have come off, making it look valuable and antique.
I never kept any of my mudballs. They’d be worth a lot of money now if I had.
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Posted to General Rants • 2005.03.08 (Tue) • 21:31
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Posted by Ian 2005.03.09, 02:53
Man, that thing is gorgeous. I want one. What’re the dimensions?
Posted by jh 2005.03.09, 07:22
It’s a little smaller than a golf ball — kind of hard to tell from the photograph. I don’t think you could play golf with it, by the way: it’s pretty hard, but I think it would explode in a cloud of dust if you gave it a good whack.
Posted by Stephen 2005.03.09, 11:19
Now that’s truly great! It really looks like it’s worth much more than it is.
Posted by Durf 2005.03.09, 13:45
And they say that craftsmanship is a dying art. Looks like something to send in to the Association of Nippon Doroļ½°dango Science!
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~tutimizu/
My company did a writeup of this form of play a few years back …
http://web-japan.org/trends01/article/011005sci_r.html
Posted by Jim 2005.03.09, 15:01
Are they a Japanese thing? I saw a program on Japanese television a long time ago where this guy was going around to playgrounds and showing kids how to make them. Back at his apartment, he had some that he’d made over the years, carefully stored in boxes with tissue paper. He and the camera crew went to visit a woman who also made them and when she opened a wooden box to find one of her treasures broken, she was inconsolable.
Posted by Elle 2005.03.09, 16:03
(Just found your blog via aussieblogs.org, by the way - nice site you have here!)
It’s a lovely-looking little artefact! It looks almost metallic; if I’d seen it without reading the caption I’d have thought of a cannon ball, musket shot, or something like that.
Posted by jh 2005.03.10, 00:00
Durf — Mother of god! This country never ceases to amaze me. Fantastic links. I’m showing my daughter first thing in the morning.
Posted by James 2005.04.27, 17:08
One word - eBay!
I’d say you’d get a few hundred dollars at least for as well-preserved a treasure as this.
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