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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9571614, member: 5833&quot;]The 3 that are not the red hand holding a monkey look like the boxwood netsuke being made in China, I believe following Japanese designs &amp; signed with Japanese names.&nbsp; The names seem to have been adopted by &amp; used consistently by individual carvers &amp; in that way are signatures.&nbsp; Probably the hand is the same thing, just in a finish I haven&#039;t seen before on one of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got quite smitten with these some years ago &amp; found that although a design would be be done repeatedly, by different hands, I kept finding the same few signatures on the ones with the best execution &amp; one, a top notch craftsman, who was always tweaking the design in little humorous ways &amp; putting his signature in hard to find spots.&nbsp; I became able to pick out his work from a jumble of pieces without seeing the signature.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would love to collect genuine netsuke, but have neither the money nor the knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>And mice do make charming subjects.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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