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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kardinalisimo, post: 477489, member: 118&quot;]According to Real Or Repro</p><p><br /></p><p>Before modern plastics, the most common way to reproduce carved lacquer was to first make molds of genuine pieces. These molds were then used to make plaster copies. The copies were then painted with thick reddish-orange paint and sold as carved cinnabar. Slightly better reproductions were made by coating the plaster with a single layer of lacquer as a top coating. Another pre-1940 imitation was a type of red putty that was pressed in molds. This material was heat sensitive and often softens and blurs details.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wonder if some of the above is the case here?</p><p>I feel like heating a needle. But what to look for? I doubt is carved wood underneath so it should smell like plastic and melt if resin?</p><p>What if it&#039;s plaster?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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