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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9589404, member: 5398&quot;]Thanks, reader. My husband looked at the empty space more closely and says there are definite signs that something was removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>After doing more reading about bear claw jewelry, I suspect someone may have removed the claw in this pendant in order to sell the pendant legally. Then the person who bought it didn&#039;t know what to do with it, and it ended up at the estate sale where I bought it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tonight I was reading online some of the problems people who sell fake-claw jewelry on Etsy have because Etsy has bots that only look at photos and can&#039;t tell the difference between real and fake claws.&nbsp; Yet on eBay, I saw several listings that included the terms &quot;bear claw&quot; and the photos looked like the claws were real, or they were actually badger claws (or maybe the sellers were Native Americans who can legally sell bear claws??). But then eBay seems to be known for not enforcing certain rules, or at least hit-and-miss enforcement.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, maybe by the time I get around to selling this pendant (or my daughter does), even a carved ebony claw could be a problem since it&#039;s considered an endangered wood. I guess I&#039;ll tell my husband to use hard maple or hickory. At least I&#039;ve learned a lot from this post/thread, so thank you to all who contributed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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