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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4490318, member: 5833&quot;]My pronouns are &#039;she&#039; &amp; &#039;her&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t say anything definitive about your 2 items, but my thoughts/observations are:</p><p><br /></p><ul> <li>The one photo is not adequate to make a determination about ivory.&nbsp; We are on the lookout for the telltale grain of ivory or the bubbles &amp; seams that can appear on molded artificial material.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know if these were ever done in resin.&nbsp; The way it has yellowed is consistent with ivory, but some man made materials also yellow with time &amp; handling.&nbsp; They can also be artificially aged.</li> <li>I would be wary about the crab (which I love, BTW).&nbsp; The Chinese are masters at making reproductions of their own antiquities as well as those of other countries, including Japan.&nbsp; The market is awash in boxwood netsuke &amp; ojime that are copies of Japanese work, signed with Japanese names, &amp; carved in China.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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