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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 3729548, member: 55&quot;]Somewhat off-topic: there are certainly shop-owners who are not above deception; but two of my fond memories are of exceptionally honest ones.</p><p>Once, when I was a novice collector of Native items, my wife and I were admiring a basket in an antique shop case.&nbsp; The owner came up and said &quot;Were you thinking that might be native? It is a Chinese import.&quot; I learned a lot from handling that basket.</p><p>And around the same time, viewing an ivory item signed &quot;Nuguruk,&quot; the owner told me the entire history of such items, made since the 1920s by a Seattle jewelry company which hired non-natives to scrimshaw cutlery and décor items from real ivory, using designs supplied by the company and signing them all Nuguruk or Nunuk.&nbsp; That is information which is very hard to track down on the internet.&nbsp; Both shops could easily have sold these items to unsuspecting shoppers; but chose instead to spread knowledge.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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