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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10517710, member: 2844&quot;]You can see from the wear and patina on the breaklines that the damage was done long before the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for posting the photos again, very helpful.</p><p><br /></p><p>That was in Inner Mongolia, occupied by China, not in Outer Mongolia. Your phurba was found near Arvaikheer, which is in independent (Outer) Mongolia, although formerly a semi-independent People&#039;s Republic of Mongolia under Soviet influence and protection.</p><p><br /></p><p>We can speculate, but even if we stay within the historic and geographic possibilities we will never know what caused the damage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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