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<p>[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4428729, member: 360"]I had to pull all the monkeys off the base to re-seat them (they were falling off anyway) and the underside was definitely ivory, with the grain and everything. Unfortunately I didn't think to photograph any of them before remounting them and replacing the old glue. </p><p><br /></p><p>As to what they are - I think they're a tourist piece made in the early 1900s, probably in somewhere like Hong Kong, or whatever. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are versions with four, or even five monkeys, if you know where to find them. It's just that three is the most common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Shangas, post: 4428729, member: 360"]I had to pull all the monkeys off the base to re-seat them (they were falling off anyway) and the underside was definitely ivory, with the grain and everything. Unfortunately I didn't think to photograph any of them before remounting them and replacing the old glue. As to what they are - I think they're a tourist piece made in the early 1900s, probably in somewhere like Hong Kong, or whatever. There are versions with four, or even five monkeys, if you know where to find them. It's just that three is the most common.[/QUOTE]
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