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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 9906738, member: 29&quot;]And he didn’t give any evidence, did he. I do think some of those PBS AR presenters just throw things out into the ether sometimes. I reckon he looked at that “England” label and concluded from it. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was thinking about this today and I’d speculate that Italy is a more likely origin and possibly fifties into sixties. I’m basing that on the fact that there was a lot of production of repro antique art style souvenir and decorative pieces made there at the time. Partly for the emerging tourist market and partly because it went with that whole slightly florid taste. Think alabaster and ormolu boxes and table, and those florentine gesso trays and boxes as an example. Harking back to a sort of golden age renaissance and then Grand Tour reminiscence. The craft would fit for Italy too, it’s not very British at all. Especially in the post war period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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