An attractively hand carved antique
silver Bombilla from South America. Hallmarked (600) and marked 'Garantida'.
These were (and still are) used to drink the health giving tea
"yerba maté". The maté is sucked through the small perforations in
the end of the tube so that the infusion passes but not the dried
leaves (yerba) - like a straw. The third world equivalent to a sick
syphon. Difficult to date but probably turn of the 19th or early
20th Century. Measures 205 x 18 mm.
