Another mysterious vintage casting from the Lima antiques market, where I prowled for Spanish trade beads, Nueva Cadiz, and pre-Colombian beads in the mid-1980s, while importing handcrafts and new clay beads from Peru.
I'm not sure this is really antique brass or bronze, but unlike the cats (MBC-66 and MBC-67) and the Moon Face Pendants (MBC-33) this one might actually be an antique. I've seen similar things in the the Gold Museum.
It features a llama's head as the handle of some kind of cutting or scraping blade with bird and animal figures carved on the front, the back is rough.
The dark coating hides the metal almost completely, but a little scratching with a file on the back reveals bright brass color
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