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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Richard Porter, post: 300167, member: 6047&quot;]I am glad you all like your items. That is always the main thing. In my opinion , however , all items shown so far are NLOs or netsuke like objects. All are Chinese and relatively modern. The quality of the carving is just not there even for ones from the Edo period. The himotoshi are not correct and nor are the signatures. Really sorry but this is the case with about 90% of Netsuke out there. It really is a mine field and truly not worth getting in to unless you are prepared to do a huge amount of reading and handling authentic netsuke. There also comes the issue of Netsuke reporting to be old being fake and some even post the 1947 ivory ban. Like I said if you like them great but authentic or valuable Netsuke they are not. I will post some pictures later today to show you the differences. Sorry[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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