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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4408771, member: 55"]What I'm saying is, it is wrong to assume that carvings like these are not likely being sold in bags of 50 for pennies apiece, even though they are hand-carved. If they were "real" from any culture, you would not find so many of them all together, in all shades of white and brown.....</p><p>But that is 100% a sign of them being sold to the bead-shops, likely originating in the Indonesian export industry.</p><p>Sorry to be blunt, but that is what it looks like to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 4408771, member: 55"]What I'm saying is, it is wrong to assume that carvings like these are not likely being sold in bags of 50 for pennies apiece, even though they are hand-carved. If they were "real" from any culture, you would not find so many of them all together, in all shades of white and brown..... But that is 100% a sign of them being sold to the bead-shops, likely originating in the Indonesian export industry. Sorry to be blunt, but that is what it looks like to me.[/QUOTE]
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