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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10230578, member: 8267&quot;]My old man has pointed out that there are tool marks on the face of the stamp that indicate a router was used to finish the recesses around the animal figures. The circular router bit leaves marks of a consistent width, running parallel to the figures&#039; design -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511364[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The same phenomenon can be seen in this example of router marks on wood -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511366[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://community.carbide3d.com/t/help-removing-path-marks/33750/13" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://community.carbide3d.com/t/help-removing-path-marks/33750/13" rel="nofollow">https://community.carbide3d.com/t/help-removing-path-marks/33750/13</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is evidence of modern manufacture. In the case of the seal they may have been working with a pantograph, tracing a pattern. At any rate, the whole piece would have been cast in a mold, and I doubt that it is unique (one of a kind).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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