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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4388202, member: 5833&quot;]Oops, sorry Lark, I wasn&#039;t clear.&nbsp; I really had the 3 netsuke in mind but it can&#039;t hurt to go over this guy more.&nbsp; I was already pretty well convinced he&#039;s resin &amp; don&#039;t see much here to challenge that except this one place, the proper right of the helmet:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369154[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s too blurry to tell what&#039;s going on there.&nbsp; What can you tell us?</p><p><br /></p><p>We need pix that are at least this close, in focus.&nbsp; Does whatever you&#039;re using have a macro setting?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369155[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Right now I&#039;m on the fence with these 3; sometimes I think I see signs of ivory, sometimes not.&nbsp; We&#039;re trying to spot any areas with the characteristic grain of ivory.&nbsp; We&#039;re looking for this (Schreger lines):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369156[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Or this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369157[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the marks, looks like all 3 have one mark that&#039;s the same, 2 have the second mark in common, &amp; the third has a mark different from the others.&nbsp; Think they are in the equivalent of cursive.&nbsp; Would think signatures if not for that smaller mark they all have in common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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