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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 1570706, member: 54"]My non-expert, consumer-type opinion is that they are nice souvenir or decorator items, but collectors would avoid them, as you probably know. In my opinion, anyway, regardless of the breed of mineral, the workmanship on these is poor-to-average. The last, dark thing, is certainly a very poor carving, again imo. The bottle thing at top is better, but nothing special. Are the two ears near top glued on or part of the whole? One thing to look at also are the bases. The bases are more poorly crafted, and the creators or original sellers aren’t going to put good pieces on poor bases. If u r keeping them, nothing to worry about, but if reselling, as I’m sure u know, u r competing with thousands of Chinese and others who are offering similar and better pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 1570706, member: 54"]My non-expert, consumer-type opinion is that they are nice souvenir or decorator items, but collectors would avoid them, as you probably know. In my opinion, anyway, regardless of the breed of mineral, the workmanship on these is poor-to-average. The last, dark thing, is certainly a very poor carving, again imo. The bottle thing at top is better, but nothing special. Are the two ears near top glued on or part of the whole? One thing to look at also are the bases. The bases are more poorly crafted, and the creators or original sellers aren’t going to put good pieces on poor bases. If u r keeping them, nothing to worry about, but if reselling, as I’m sure u know, u r competing with thousands of Chinese and others who are offering similar and better pieces.[/QUOTE]
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