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I was surprised to find, while researching some nativity sets, that the "hand-carving" is "machine-aided." I had noticed that the prices were...
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I see them now; the bottom one especially is visible.
Or acid-etched, or some similar process. But it doesn't look like any kind of cameo glass that I've seen.
I'm pretty sure the dolphins are neither real Galle cameo glass, nor intended to be fake Galle cameo glass......but beyond that I have no opinion....
I always enjoy knowing information about the artists. This link has some information about the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Gambell and St. Lawrence...
PS, the photo is not of the carver Evans Apataki, but Chuck Frey, the dealer/owner of "Bering Sea Treasures" and I note that other websites spell...
And I bet the signature is Evans A. for Evans Apataki or Apatiki:...
Gambell, AK: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That's what I see also. GAM could well be Gambell, Alaska; on St. Lawrence Island. That would be a reasonable location for a carver in whalebone;...
Clarification: The video itself does work and can be viewed fine. However, the embedding function does not work with videos from vid.me.
Good info, Komo, Taupou. (As I said, "others will know more.") I think Judy's whalebone mask is quite attractive, also.
vid.me does not work; I tried. Could repost on youtube, then the video could be embedded.
Some of us get a little bit tikied off about the confusion between Tiki and Totem. There is no relationship; Tiki being Polynesian, though the...
I use the "upload a file" button, (next to "post reply") to select a photo from my computer. The mountain/image icon allows one to post a photo...
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