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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brian Warshaw, post: 3746117, member: 16674&quot;]I have just had this delivered having bought it on Facebook Market.&nbsp; It isn’t old, between 20 and 25 years, but I think it is lovely, and fine to pass on to one of my granddaughters.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far, I have determined that the base and upright are marble.&nbsp; Off-white, translucent, grey veins, I would have expected it to be of Italian origin; but perversely think it might be Spanish<i> Macael White</i>, using a trade catalogue as my reference guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>The young girl has an incised mark ‘NIGRI’.&nbsp; It belongs to an Italian company that manufactures figurines of cats, and produces a wide range of chess sets in historic styles in resine.&nbsp; Models are hand painted ‘with a brush’, according to a label I have seen; but not specifically associated with my bookends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very little is published about NIGRI, but read, somewhere, that they did, or had, at some time produce a small volume of porcelain figures.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I want to discover is are my figures RESIN or PORCELAIN?&nbsp; Is there a way of telling?&nbsp; Looing forward to all your wise words and advice.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314285[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314286[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314289[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314288[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314287[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314290[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]314294[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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