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Tim Simmons · 3rd December 2006, 05:15 PM

I have finally located this sugar hammer. It had been tidied away by my wife, one of the things she calls ornaments

you can take a horse to water

. Anyway as you can see it is jolly impressive and of the same size as the folding lohar. I feel sure that the lohar, small or large is a domestic tool, made to impress at social gatherings and other communal festivities. Sugar and other consumables did and probably still now not come in the easy packaged form we are used to. Sugar breaking apparatus were common in large houses in the west untill the late 19th century. The question is if you have a lohar, how do you feel? Have you paid too much because it is not a weapon or did you really get a bargin for a very nice piece of ethnographic art?

3rd December 2006, 05:15 PM	#31
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,739	I have finally located this sugar hammer. It had been tidied away by my wife, one of the things she calls ornaments you can take a horse to water . Anyway as you can see it is jolly impressive and of the same size as the folding lohar. I feel sure that the lohar, small or large is a domestic tool, made to impress at social gatherings and other communal festivities. Sugar and other consumables did and probably still now not come in the easy packaged form we are used to. Sugar breaking apparatus were common in large houses in the west untill the late 19th century. The question is if you have a lohar, how do you feel? Have you paid too much because it is not a weapon or did you really get a bargin for a very nice piece of ethnographic art?