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MarkHayward

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Spin top in MOMA store
« on: June 10, 2010, 01:40:48 AM »

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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 09:08:21 AM »

BattleTop!!!!!!!
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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2010, 10:22:41 AM »

Fifteen USD! May be the wood is from a recently extint tree...!
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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2010, 10:35:15 AM »

Haha, that's hilarious.  Good old Art Museums... they'd charge you more to breathe the air if they could figure out how.
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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2010, 02:53:19 PM »

Here are a couple of sources for purchasing one for $5  - $7.50 if you really want an authentic one!
In Portugal a top is called piĆ£o.
Retail
http://www.portuguesegift.com/servlet/the-2246/Portuguese-Wooden-Toys,-Portugal/Detail
http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=1265404
More Info
http://www.upmagazine-tap.com/en/2010/02/laco-bag-spinning-top/
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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2010, 11:36:35 PM »

I don't know how you do it Zeemo, you are an ace finding obscure stuff on the internet.

This picture on the second site puzzles me:



At first glance I would had said the height of the top is just over 9cm. But I don't completely understand the measuring tape. I am curious why the even number cm are also numbered. Is that a tailor thing? Wait, perhaps that is to scale things 1:2. But then it would make sense that the smaller divisions are the half-scale and the real-world scale are the larger divisions (but smaller digits). Then the top would measure just over 4.5 cm (under 2 inches) tall. That is too small so I bet it is in fact 9cm tall. But perhaps somebody can clarify this to me.

By the way, it is also interesting that the tape is Made in Germany (notice standard English wording) but the "Misura per Sarti" (measure for tailor) is Italian. To top it off, it is used to measure a Portuguese top  ???
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Re: Spin top in MOMA store
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2010, 03:29:44 AM »

That tape is tipical from Europe. I got some but isn't accurate. Now they are made of plastic, but my mother own one of cloth. The usual lenght is 150 cm as you can read in the photo, so that the lenght of the top is just 9 cm.

The second scale is more relative to the sizes of the european clothes.

That tape must be in the Moma as well.
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