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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 231774, member: 55"]As Houseful mentioned, resin pieces are never hand-carved, but cast or molded.</p><p>It can be quite hard to identify such items, as far as when/where made, because there generally are no books or online resources for souvenir-type items. </p><p>This can lead to the idea that an item is rare or unique, even though presumably hundreds if not thousands of identical items were made - but that is simply because there are no resources or collector guides to cast-resin vases, or cast-resin totem poles, or whatever.</p><p>For some types of items, the manufacturers may have an online catalog (for example, Panobo Sales, aka BOMA, has an online catalog of their resin totems and such; but that covers only a tiny fraction of all the resin totems made over the years).</p><p>So you might try google searches such as "greek resin vase importer" in the hopes of finding such a catalog; and you could try a Google image search using a good cropped photo of your item. Maybe try the term urn, or amphora.</p><p>However, I tried the image search and came up with only a lot of pictures of stone carvings, none of which were vases.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 231774, member: 55"]As Houseful mentioned, resin pieces are never hand-carved, but cast or molded. It can be quite hard to identify such items, as far as when/where made, because there generally are no books or online resources for souvenir-type items. This can lead to the idea that an item is rare or unique, even though presumably hundreds if not thousands of identical items were made - but that is simply because there are no resources or collector guides to cast-resin vases, or cast-resin totem poles, or whatever. For some types of items, the manufacturers may have an online catalog (for example, Panobo Sales, aka BOMA, has an online catalog of their resin totems and such; but that covers only a tiny fraction of all the resin totems made over the years). So you might try google searches such as "greek resin vase importer" in the hopes of finding such a catalog; and you could try a Google image search using a good cropped photo of your item. Maybe try the term urn, or amphora. However, I tried the image search and came up with only a lot of pictures of stone carvings, none of which were vases.[/QUOTE]
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