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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 572403, member: 18320"]Yes, the blue & white piece is ceramic, and is clear-glazed overall. It's about an inch and a sixteenth in diameter, and three-sixteenths thick. Weight is eight grams. It appears to have been punched from a sheet, as it is slightly 'flared', the face with only four characters being a wee bit larger in diameter than the other face, which also has a shallow circular depressed area in the center, just large enough to contain those four central characters.</p><p> </p><p>The rectangular piece is also ceramic, and glazed. The back side (I'll post another pic) shows a creamier color, with blue, both incised and stamped, characters, as well as a decorative border. It measures seven-eights of an inch long, nine-sixteenths wide, and about an eighth thick. Weight is three grams. The face you see in the first pic appears to be colored as it is due to soiling of some kind, as the creamy color of the material showing on the back is not apparent there.</p><p> </p><p>The square piece with the round hole and clipped corners might be wooden, but might also be some organic composite, or treated leather...Ive looked closely at it without being able to say for sure, though it sounds like wood when dropped on a desktop. it weighs four grams, it's an inch and three quarters square by three-sixteenths thick, the hole being a quarter inch.</p><p> </p><p>I'll get to that other pic now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 572403, member: 18320"]Yes, the blue & white piece is ceramic, and is clear-glazed overall. It's about an inch and a sixteenth in diameter, and three-sixteenths thick. Weight is eight grams. It appears to have been punched from a sheet, as it is slightly 'flared', the face with only four characters being a wee bit larger in diameter than the other face, which also has a shallow circular depressed area in the center, just large enough to contain those four central characters. The rectangular piece is also ceramic, and glazed. The back side (I'll post another pic) shows a creamier color, with blue, both incised and stamped, characters, as well as a decorative border. It measures seven-eights of an inch long, nine-sixteenths wide, and about an eighth thick. Weight is three grams. The face you see in the first pic appears to be colored as it is due to soiling of some kind, as the creamy color of the material showing on the back is not apparent there. The square piece with the round hole and clipped corners might be wooden, but might also be some organic composite, or treated leather...Ive looked closely at it without being able to say for sure, though it sounds like wood when dropped on a desktop. it weighs four grams, it's an inch and three quarters square by three-sixteenths thick, the hole being a quarter inch. I'll get to that other pic now.[/QUOTE]
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