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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 695568, member: 4654&quot;]I agree that he wouldn&#039;t have carved each character exactly the same on every piece he did, not only would it look strange but there is the size of each piece to take into account, my carving has a lot going on in quite a small space. Just in this photo I can see many things that are carved in the same way as mine and they almost look identical, the black motif along the bottom is the same as mine going round the edge, the bird holding the grapes, the funny round things on the scrolling, the dragons mouth, the snake, the scrolling it&#039;s self, the micro stippling where there is no carving, the dragons on the top of mine are the same design only much smaller. I tried to draw on this photo but the size of the file changed from 990kb to 3.2mb the site wouldn&#039;t let me upload. As I say being able to view my carving from all angles to compare against stock photos of his known works leaves me in little doubt it&#039;s by him. There wasn&#039;t that many carvers doing this sort of carving in the 19thc and when you have looked (over years) at all of them closely only one really stands out. When you look at all the facts, mine is from the 19thc, it has the quality to stand against many of his known lesser works, it has many similarities with his work (far more than any other carver doing the same sort of work) It wasn&#039;t sold to me for loads of money and I&#039;m quite happy if I find out that it&#039;s by a different less known carver but who? I haven&#039;t even found someone else I could say &quot;it maybe by him&quot; [ATTACH=full]186768[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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