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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 292747, member: 2844&quot;]If you look closely at the little Jesus figure, you can see only the face and hand are painted. They are &#039;floating&#039; in a brown background.</p><p>This could be an old riza (the silver cover) on a later icon.</p><p>There was a well-known antique dealer in the Betuwe area of The Netherlands in the 1970s, who bought old wooden panels and had them painted in Russia. He sold hundreds of them as antique icons.</p><p>He may have commisioned fake antique rizas too, there is a lot of fake &#039;antique&#039; Russian silver anyway. Favourites of the fakes trade are religious items and items connected with the Romanovs. And Fabergé of course.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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