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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;antiguamarie, post: 2335194, member: 15422&quot;][ATTACH=full]260352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260352[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]260347[/ATTACH] Hello again.</p><p>On the rebound from my failed Teke buy, I’m looking for guidance on these ladies that caught my eye and trying to see if I can to do better this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Museum/ Southebys quality and ancient age is not the goal, but rather something that was well made before the 1960s (after which I would think the chances of tourist art increase exponentially) - and hopefully used in the community.</p><p><br /></p><p>As opposed to being carved to pretend to have been “tribally used.”</p><p>[USER=8267]@2manybooks[/USER] do you think any of these might fit the bill?</p><p><br /></p><p>All were bought from estates that had large collections, say the sellers. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Two photographed in the store (Yoruba and Dogon) were supposedly collected before the 1940s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seated Baule is supposed to be also first half of 20th century. Aesthetically it probably is the most appealing to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please LMK if this is out of the bounds of this forum, and its meant to be more about identifying what things are than helping to date them/ suggest whether “authentic” or not? And I know that authentic is a loaded term.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]260349[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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