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<p>[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 10064625, member: 83302"]I've been buying them for almost 40 years, I can just tell. One definitive way is to see the back. If it's see through, it's real. Usually if it's not real, it will be set in something that you can't see the back. Plastic that looks like shell, if you look closely even in photos, looks like plastic/resin. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is one I bought, and thought it might be real, and it's not. It was extremely cheap. It's still beautiful. It's just not carved. It's a mold.[ATTACH=full]505338[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many here who can answer better than myself. I just buy what I think my wife will like. I'm usually spot on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Snowman Cometh, post: 10064625, member: 83302"]I've been buying them for almost 40 years, I can just tell. One definitive way is to see the back. If it's see through, it's real. Usually if it's not real, it will be set in something that you can't see the back. Plastic that looks like shell, if you look closely even in photos, looks like plastic/resin. This is one I bought, and thought it might be real, and it's not. It was extremely cheap. It's still beautiful. It's just not carved. It's a mold.[ATTACH=full]505338[/ATTACH] There are many here who can answer better than myself. I just buy what I think my wife will like. I'm usually spot on.[/QUOTE]
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