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<p>[QUOTE="lpan9, post: 494933, member: 3788"]Also the low quality of this item clearly tells it was made by a street artist in a tourist souvenir market, same as those street painters in New York city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those street Chinese carvers at that time often received poor school education and knew little English, so they just came up with any Chinese characters close to the western name pronounced by this western visitor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lpan9, post: 494933, member: 3788"]Also the low quality of this item clearly tells it was made by a street artist in a tourist souvenir market, same as those street painters in New York city. Those street Chinese carvers at that time often received poor school education and knew little English, so they just came up with any Chinese characters close to the western name pronounced by this western visitor.[/QUOTE]
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