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<p>[QUOTE="hunt2, post: 9733655, member: 85118"][ATTACH=full]474520[/ATTACH] Oke, first, these are scotisch highlanders and not spanish bulls. Second, brass or bronze will always be a endless discussion and if you look at 17th century bronze cauldrons they also look like brass as do the bronze mortars.</p><p><br /></p><p>3th, on catawiki it is common that they post most of the items as 20th century so not to get angry customers if you mis dated an item I have owned these bulls before i sold them to the person from catawiki and regognized the dark brown /black patination as 17th/18th century with the distinctive texture.</p><p><br /></p><p>only visible with a 10x loop..And a 17th century bronze horse has the same file marks which are done by a hand file not machine and also the screw thread is hand done wich is indicative of an early age. But that is just my opinion . but i apreciate the feetback.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="hunt2, post: 9733655, member: 85118"][ATTACH=full]474520[/ATTACH] Oke, first, these are scotisch highlanders and not spanish bulls. Second, brass or bronze will always be a endless discussion and if you look at 17th century bronze cauldrons they also look like brass as do the bronze mortars. 3th, on catawiki it is common that they post most of the items as 20th century so not to get angry customers if you mis dated an item I have owned these bulls before i sold them to the person from catawiki and regognized the dark brown /black patination as 17th/18th century with the distinctive texture. only visible with a 10x loop..And a 17th century bronze horse has the same file marks which are done by a hand file not machine and also the screw thread is hand done wich is indicative of an early age. But that is just my opinion . but i apreciate the feetback.[/QUOTE]
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