I bought this at a junk store for Maureen a couple Christmases ago.
It is about 1 foot tall and very light, maybe a pound. It is hollow and appears to be made of wood veneer or heavy cardboard, covered with cloth (silk?) and embroidered with birds and flowers and such like pretty things (it is the item to the right of the bottle):
Has 32 “faces”, all told:
30 hexagonal faces (measures 4” between the parallel sides):
12 pentagonal faces, that are a tad bit smaller 
There is no hatch or seam or door that opens up. It's closed up tighter than a cow's ass at fly time.
Ming dynasty basketball?
Tibetan soccer ball?
The urn for Buckminster Fuller’s ashes?
Pretty piece of junk?
I’ll send one beerleg sticker (I’m in the Beerleg sticker chips, these days), to the first person who figures out what this thing is.
Thanks,
Mike
That is a genuine "Tibetan soccer ball" IF I ever saw one!
This takes me back to my first drafting class when we learned how to draft orthographic projections of an object and make a scale model of the object for a midterm grade.
A 32 sided polygon is known as a triacontakaidigon.
If I had been able to turn that in as a completed project, the shop teacher would probably have given me a scholarship.
It is one of those objects that little ole ladies make to show their skills.
Hey...nice Koozie you got there!! Love it!! :love: 😉
I wish I knew what it was...but whatever it is, it's gorgeous, I think. Nifty artwork!! :clap:
If you need/want more Beerleg stickers, let me know. I'd be glad to send more. 🙂
Its a peterfor.
agreed, and I am not gonna inquire anymore info! heh
I know, I know
It is the creators' version of a friendship quilt. 32 friends got together with one friend doing one side only. Each friend had their own special bird, flower, etc.
So....what's a henway?
Buckminsterfullerene (in silk)
Nice observation...
> So....what's a henway?
same as updog.
What do you suppose the vintage is?
Could it have travelled to Oregon via boat around the Cape or did it clamor across country in a wagon?
Antique Roadshow or American Pickers might contacting you soon!
Folk art with an oriental flair.
Kind of like a super-size Temari ball, but not really.
Not sure what it is but I say duct tape it, fill it with some Gun powder a fuse and lite it up.
When in doubt, blow it up! 🙂
I haven't the foggiest...
It's a truncated icosahedron.
(It also has 60 vertices and 90 edges)
Now that you point it out Dave, this baby has truncated icosahedron written all over it.
I now realize why surveyors from coast to coast say “blow it up!!!”. This isn’t just a knee jerk, guy reaction to anything that may be able to contain a dangerous amount of powder. The truncated icosahedron screams blow it up because “This shape was also the configuration of the lenses used for focusing the explosive shock waves of the detonators in both the gadget (the Trinity site) and Fat Man atomic bombs.”
That’s all I needed to know. If you want a coveted beerleg decal, email me your mailing address and it’ll be in the pony express mochila by morning.
Troy,
Good call indeed. It’s just about 220,000,000 times too big for a Buckministerfullerene*. You’d need to chain a hubcap to a Buckministerfullerene to keep from losing it all the time. This thing we find to be self-evident.
*The truncated icosahedron can also be described as a model of the Buckminsterfullerene (fullerene) (C60), or "buckyball," molecule, an allotrope of elemental carbon, discovered in 1985. The diameter of the soccer ball and the fullerene molecule are 22 cm and ca. 1 nm, respectively, hence the size ratio is 220,000,000 : 1.
That needlework looks hand made, if done by one individual it may have taken years to do all the panels. Of course, if done by machine and mass produced it could've taken seconds.
My wife does cross stitch and blackwork, will send the link to her and see if she can offer any suggestions.
