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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9599205, member: 2844"]Icons are a difficult area, and you are more likely to get a recent souvenir or a fake than a genuine old one.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case one of the telltale signs was that the paint also covered the "weathered" cracks and crevices.</p><p>A true icon painter would make sure the entire surface was as smooth as a baby's bottom, using many different ground layers before starting on the icon (image) itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>That is another sign. Recently painted on old wood, probably a shutter panel from a demolished house. It was intended to fool buyers, so not even an honest religious souvenir.</p><p><br /></p><p>Icons are made in the entire Orthodox and other Eastern Christian world, btw, not just in Russia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9599205, member: 2844"]Icons are a difficult area, and you are more likely to get a recent souvenir or a fake than a genuine old one. In this case one of the telltale signs was that the paint also covered the "weathered" cracks and crevices. A true icon painter would make sure the entire surface was as smooth as a baby's bottom, using many different ground layers before starting on the icon (image) itself. That is another sign. Recently painted on old wood, probably a shutter panel from a demolished house. It was intended to fool buyers, so not even an honest religious souvenir. Icons are made in the entire Orthodox and other Eastern Christian world, btw, not just in Russia.[/QUOTE]
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