thought process:
"oh teehee, that looks like an urn!"
"hmm... it has some sort of shaker top so you can (nervous chuckle) spread the cremains?"
(removes top, examines interior)
"ok, that looks like either silver tarnish inside... or... ash?" (picks up ugly plastic letter opener with cardinal on it [that some ornithologically minded furry would love to use as a hegar sound], scrapes inside)
so yeah, it's an urn. a used urn.
on the scale of horrors found in thrift shops, 1 being misspellings/engrish/"evil" clowns, 10 being items contaminated with feces or other crotchal fluids, this scores an 11 because it ACTUALLY CONTAINS AMALGAMATED INCINERATED HUMAN REMAINS. might not be infectious or odorous, but definitely carries some bad juju that you can't just clean off with bleach (or incinerate, for that matter)
i also found
this on the other side of the shelf. SCORE!