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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 299934, member: 5833&quot;]These go for me too.&nbsp; At a certain point I realized I love just little carved things.&nbsp; Before it was cameos it was Zuni carvings.&nbsp; If I could afford &amp; the expertise to buy wisely, I would easily become a collector of netsuke/ojime.</p><p><br /></p><p>I actually bought a whole bunch of the Chinese boxwood ojime, knowing they were knockoffs, because I loved the creativity &amp; whimsy of the designs.&nbsp; Realized after a bit that I could pick out from a jumble the work of one particular carver whose carving was better than most &amp; who had a tendency to add some little humorous touch of his own not present on others of the same design.&nbsp; I was buying them in a bead store that happened to have a Japanese clerk, who kindly transliterated names for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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