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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 584939, member: 5833"]Tried to make myself an expert on pre-Columbian pots with the help of Google. Those tiny handles seem to be a characteristic of some, but am not finding any with 4, even though specified in search terms. The most similar are like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/9c/76/cc/9c76cc712d679cde3fc4a6f6359d5588.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And that's assuming it is correctly IDed as pre-C.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't think it is going to be possible for us to authenticate it with only photos to go by. But there is certainly enough pottery on the market claiming to be pre-Columbian to suggest that pieces are not so rare as all that. No reason to rule out the possibility it is authentic. An expert would have to examine it, unless one could unequivocally say it is fake based on visual cues alone.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 584939, member: 5833"]Tried to make myself an expert on pre-Columbian pots with the help of Google. Those tiny handles seem to be a characteristic of some, but am not finding any with 4, even though specified in search terms. The most similar are like this: [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/236x/9c/76/cc/9c76cc712d679cde3fc4a6f6359d5588.jpg[/IMG] And that's assuming it is correctly IDed as pre-C. I don't think it is going to be possible for us to authenticate it with only photos to go by. But there is certainly enough pottery on the market claiming to be pre-Columbian to suggest that pieces are not so rare as all that. No reason to rule out the possibility it is authentic. An expert would have to examine it, unless one could unequivocally say it is fake based on visual cues alone.[/QUOTE]
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