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<p>[QUOTE="tyeldom3, post: 47859, member: 43"]LOLOLOL!!!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Thank you, thank you evelyb, messi & bear! So kind of you to help.</p><p>Ok, I"ve looked him over much better and I'm quite sure now that he is some kind of nut. On the backside where the tail comes around seems to be a depression in the (nut?), that the tail lays on. & What I thought to be fine lines earlier, now appear to be hand carved hair around the face and feet, because those fine lines are not in other areas of the back and underside. So, if it is a nut, it would have to be hand carved...right?, and if so, it seems to be pretty well done in my opinion.</p><p>Messi, I didn't know about that about the holes, thanks!</p><p>Bear, I will look at tagua nuts, thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tyeldom3, post: 47859, member: 43"]LOLOLOL!!!:hilarious::hilarious: Thank you, thank you evelyb, messi & bear! So kind of you to help. Ok, I"ve looked him over much better and I'm quite sure now that he is some kind of nut. On the backside where the tail comes around seems to be a depression in the (nut?), that the tail lays on. & What I thought to be fine lines earlier, now appear to be hand carved hair around the face and feet, because those fine lines are not in other areas of the back and underside. So, if it is a nut, it would have to be hand carved...right?, and if so, it seems to be pretty well done in my opinion. Messi, I didn't know about that about the holes, thanks! Bear, I will look at tagua nuts, thanks![/QUOTE]
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