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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 243915, member: 55&quot;]Or sadly, an older one who just didn&#039;t care.&nbsp; There are a number of older carvers whose work got gradually worse as they aged.&nbsp; But yes, black ears with red interior U-forms would be the usual expectation.&nbsp; Possibly Nov 5, 2011?&nbsp; I can&#039;t make out much more than that.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m still going with Alert Bay area as a pretty likely possibility for a number of reasons, not just the coloration.&nbsp; The nested trigons in the eyebrows, done in a rather loose way, are suggestive of several of the Alert Bay families who did tourist-type carvings.&nbsp; But that style could certainly be used elsewhere.</p><p>&nbsp; &quot;Flats&quot; are made pretty widely, and shops carrying flats will often have many made by carvers who are actually working outside their own cultural tradition, because of the need for sale.</p><p>This item would be typical of something found in a Vancouver BC shop, and could have been made in Vancouver proper, or almost anywhere in BC.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I do see a number of Alert Bay features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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