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Message:: [QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 3873080, member: 55"]As mentioned, and in the other thread, the Thorn company made cast items in a variety of materials; none are actual wood.  Just as a vehicle with the logo "Ford Motor Company" is not a Rolls-Royce.One of the signs that this is a casting: look at the dimpled appearance of the back; this is intended to give an impression of wood grain.  But with a bit of experience working with wood, one should realize that this kind of surface would be very very hard to produce in actual wood.  I suppose one could take a flat piece of wood, and then use a small gouge to make all the dimples....but no wood carver, native or not, would ever do that.  In short, a glance at the back reveals that this is fake wood grain, not the real grain of real wood.In wood, grain is a  striated pattern showing a difference in color and porosity; imitation wood does not have either, and uses texture to imitate those qualities.But this is a casting I've seen many times, and the existence of multiple identical copies is in itself proof that an item is not a one-of-a-kind original wood carving.[/QUOTE]