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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;shamster, post: 10775669, member: 85821&quot;]IMO the lid is not tortoiseshell. I have never seen a piece of tortoiseshell with patterns so deliberately parallel &amp; evenly distributed, but posting a picture of the spots under magnification will help us more. You can place the loupe under the phone camera. But the edge on the second pic already has some artificial look-the spot being solid and no fading effect near the edge. Also if this is Chinese/ Japanese in origin, craftsmen there are very good at faking tortoiseshell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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