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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9524922, member: 2844"]But you can google "Fiji Mermaid" which is what those half monkey-half fish creations were called in the 19th century.</p><p>So yes, there are quite a few of them, made by stitching the upper half of a (baby) monkey to a fish tail. And thus the fish tale of a mermaid found in the waters of the South Pacific was born.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe yours was made in te Philippines or Indonesia?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9524922, member: 2844"]But you can google "Fiji Mermaid" which is what those half monkey-half fish creations were called in the 19th century. So yes, there are quite a few of them, made by stitching the upper half of a (baby) monkey to a fish tail. And thus the fish tale of a mermaid found in the waters of the South Pacific was born. Maybe yours was made in te Philippines or Indonesia?[/QUOTE]
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