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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 2173866, member: 55"]This is a cast product, made by "Wolf Enterprises" or "Wolf Originals" and you'll see on it the initials WE with a copyright symbol, looking like an "O."</p><p>Their items are made of a plaster mix, sometimes called hydrostone, and are then given a top-coat of resin for gloss, and a dusting of talcum powder to bring out the details.</p><p>They are widely misidentified, especially on ebay, and in Canada it is apparently legal to sell them as "soapstone carvings," although the only soapstone in them is in the talcum dust, and there is no carving.</p><p>Their labels will sometimes say "hand-made," though there is not really any hand-work, other than possibly pouring the plaster into the molds, or applying the talcum dust.</p><p>The company goes back to the mid 1960s, but they are still in business today. Googling for information is very hard, both because of the common misidentification on ebay, and that if you google terms like "wolf sculptures" you get mostly sculptures of wolves.</p><p>I've got some links to more info, if I can find them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 2173866, member: 55"]This is a cast product, made by "Wolf Enterprises" or "Wolf Originals" and you'll see on it the initials WE with a copyright symbol, looking like an "O." Their items are made of a plaster mix, sometimes called hydrostone, and are then given a top-coat of resin for gloss, and a dusting of talcum powder to bring out the details. They are widely misidentified, especially on ebay, and in Canada it is apparently legal to sell them as "soapstone carvings," although the only soapstone in them is in the talcum dust, and there is no carving. Their labels will sometimes say "hand-made," though there is not really any hand-work, other than possibly pouring the plaster into the molds, or applying the talcum dust. The company goes back to the mid 1960s, but they are still in business today. Googling for information is very hard, both because of the common misidentification on ebay, and that if you google terms like "wolf sculptures" you get mostly sculptures of wolves. I've got some links to more info, if I can find them.[/QUOTE]
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