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Message:: [QUOTE="memobug, post: 238070, member: 4689"]This is a small, 5x6" or so, plaster relief portrait on velvet. I don't know if it came out of a frame, case, or from a furniture inset or gift box. As purchased it had some significant wear and white exposed areas. The owner didn't know what it was made of and theorized it was carved bone. It was an estate sale item that was   priced $45 and discounted by one partner to $30 and then they disagreed and he wanted full price. I almost passed it up, and maybe I should have: A price sticker was stuck directly to it, and when I removed it the inked price had transferred to the plaster in a permanent tattoo! I tried to wash it off with alcohol but it took the stain with it leaving white plaster behind. At this point it was just about chalked up to a loss but I hit it with some Rub 'n' buff and it picked out the details pretty nicely and hid the worst of the damage. I don't have a "before" picture, sorry it made me a little ill. I don't like seeing old stuff messed up. I wouldn't have tried to "restore" it had it not been potentially ruined by the price tag. [ATTACH=full]72449[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]