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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 1000817, member: 55&quot;]No, not wood.</p><p>Souvenir wall-hangings; the apparent wood-grain is cast in.&nbsp; Most of these are plaster or resin-based, but yours could be another casting-medium.&nbsp; But not carvings.</p><p>Real wood-grain consists of differences in hardness and porosity; in finished woodwork, wood grain is not shown by incised or colored lines of any sort.&nbsp; Incised lines, as seen in these pieces, would be nearly impossible to carve; and as blooey mentioned, a wood-worker would not leave grain-lines showing, but would fill and finish them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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