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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Couch Potato Wannabe, post: 2286280, member: 14066&quot;]Only in so far as authentic cinnabar can be hazardous to your health, with mercury vapour emissions.&nbsp; I have in fact seen some actual examples of items like these being produced on modern-day multi-axis routers, as a means to mass-produce some quick variations of otherwise intricately carved items.&nbsp; The &#039;layers&#039; seen, being those of the router step adjustments in height, with the top surface then finished in a hand-polished manner to round over edge and corners to better represent the hand-carved versions.&nbsp; The ones I&#039;ve seen are extremely convincing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot see a sharp enough close-up photo to tell if this would be one of those modern-day versions, but I certainly wouldn&#039;t recommend any tests which are designed to even slightly melt or soften an inconspicuous section as a test, as if it is real cinnabar then the resulting vapour would likely contain mercury and be very unhealthy to inhale.&nbsp; There are safer tests which can be performed to test for mercury vapour emissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I can see of the close-up, it does not really look CNC to me, as I think I can see higher layers overhanging lower layers, which would require an extremely expensive CNC machine to have sufficient mobility and accessibility to achieve such detail, which would kind of ruin the point of cheap versions, unless they intend to turn out hundreds of thousands of these and other items over time to make such a machine purchase worthwhile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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