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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 207128, member: 25"]Pull the stopper, if the snuff spoon is plastic they are modern. Ivory or bamboo spoons may be older, but even in hand it is hard for anyone who has not made a lifetime study of them to seperate the repros from the antiques. The best assumption should be that they are modern reproductions since they vastly outnumber antique examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS If you could edit your post to select 'full image' for the pictures it would be helpful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 207128, member: 25"]Pull the stopper, if the snuff spoon is plastic they are modern. Ivory or bamboo spoons may be older, but even in hand it is hard for anyone who has not made a lifetime study of them to seperate the repros from the antiques. The best assumption should be that they are modern reproductions since they vastly outnumber antique examples. PS If you could edit your post to select 'full image' for the pictures it would be helpful.[/QUOTE]
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