Welcome to Is This Available? by Dana and Maria, our weekly blast about something we find on Facebook Marketplace.
New York, New York
Readers, I have to come clean. I had no idea that mantles could detach from walls. This is not only humbling for me but also truly humiliating, because I’m always telling people that mantles are the wall.
In turn, purchasing a mantle has never crossed my mind, let alone purchasing half of one.
Maria and I used to live in an apartment building where our unit didn’t have a mantle, but every other unit did (full mantles too, no halfsies). Not to speak for the both of us, but not having a mantle didn’t bother us. We were more concerned with our damp walls, mold poisoning and unconcerned-for-our-health landlords. Anyways, securing an apartment with a mantle in New York City seems like a stroke of luck.
But the world didn’t always work this way. From the ancient Egyptians and Greek civilizations to today, mantles have taken on many forms and styles. Looking even farther back, the word ‘mantle’ refers to the hot solid-ish core of the earth’s interior. When earth was forming 4.5 billion years ago, iron and nickel separated from the other stuff to create the mantle, which makes up 84% of earth’s volume.
Warm core that keeps us warm and cozy? Can’t be separated or the earth would not exist? Certainly begs the question, why HALVE the mantle?
Maria’s miss of the week: Frog measuring spoon holder