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Chaumurky Top View

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The stopper has a Russian Olive Burl top and straight grained Russian Olive below.
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Joe Greiner
Very fine work. Looks very thin at top. It isn't actually that thin elsewhere, is it?!?!

What is chaumurky? Google search was inconclusive.
 
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No, it isn't that thin all the way through. The bottom and lower sides are about 3/8" maybe more in places. For me that was enough. Chaumurky comes from the "Dune" novels by Frank Herbert. It means poison was given in a drink, and probably used as an assassins tool. The Noble families would use assassination to eliminate political enemies and to gain power over other Noble families. I pictured this as something a Duke or Baron may have poured a drink out of, and hoped it wasn't poisoned.
 

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