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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 41803, member: 54&quot;]My guess is that the larger one may be older. made for actual use, looking at how scratched up the bottom is, the dents, bends etc.&nbsp; I can see that one having been slid around on a marble counter a good but and dropping off onto the floor a few times.</p><p><br /></p><p>Smaller one I still think is souvenir type but since it can&#039;t talk we won&#039;t know, unless someone takes a sample of the bronze and has it analyzed.&nbsp; If there&#039;s any trace of aluminum in it, it is probably post-1900, and if not, probably earlier.&nbsp; There was little if any aluminum in the scrap metal trade prior to 1900, and since about that time, there are traces of aluminum contamination in virtually all nonferrous alloys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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