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Message:: [QUOTE="808 raver, post: 723336, member: 4654"]Nagina carving is the generic term for items carved in a very distinctive way, please don't take this the wrong way but all of the items above aren't Nagina, where they were carved might well have been in that rejoin but none can be described as Nagina. The real golden age of carving in India was pre-1900 but there were still some fantastic carvers up to the 1930's. The time these items took to produce and the skill involved needed a wealthy person to buy them, that's why in a country the size of India you can still identify (sometimes) the craftsman who produced them because at that time there were not that many craftsmen producing them, later on when tourism increased the standard dropped and production increased. These days Anglo Indian the term given to the golden age when very wealthy tourists could afford to give 3 months wages for one item are very sort after and the days of finding them on ebay going for a song are gone (most of the time) they are now to well recognised. Do you live in the UK? the reason for asking is these items can still be found at car boots and not snapped up but ebay is a wash with dealers who know the coup.[/QUOTE]