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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9733687, member: 8267&quot;]It might have been helpful if you had explained all of this in your initial post, so that we could have responded more effectively. So, you bought these back from the catawiki guy because you think you initially misidentified them?</p><p><br /></p><p>In terms of file marks, hand files continue to be used today, often for minor adjustments such as fitting a casting to a plinth. I cannot comment on the screw threads, as I cannot see them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your figures are very stylized, but you have focused on the shape of the horns. Granted, they are not the typical way that Spanish bulls&#039; horns are depicted. You found a photo of a Scottish highlander with similarly shaped horns, but they seem to come in a variety of shapes -</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://depositphotos.com/similar-images/333466214.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://depositphotos.com/similar-images/333466214.html" rel="nofollow">https://depositphotos.com/similar-images/333466214.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If your criteria is scientific accuracy, there is no indication of the hairy coats of highland cattle. They also are not known for particularly aggressive postures.</p><p><br /></p><p>A great variety of patination methods have been used for centuries. Even if your observation of similarities between the bulls and some 17th-18th century bronze objects is accurate, there is no reason that the same type of surface cannot be created today.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is clear that you want the bulls to be older, but you need to consider style as well as the details. This type of abstracted, blocky, &quot;brutalist&quot; form does not appear in art until the 20th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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