Featured Tiger in Cattails in Copper

I run into the productions of this seller regularly. They represent all their cameos as being copies of highly valuable shell originals; most of them are not. The original of the tiger is probably a metal jewellery element like OP's, which would serve just fine as a mold. The one in question does not look like copper that has spent any amount of time in the ground; would expect it to be quite green if it were.

 

@i need help must have access to an alternative antiques web that the rest of us are not party to.
Alternatively just phenomenal search skills that I envy.
In war time those skills would have had you decoding at Bletchley Park!.

 

Thank you, @Bronwen !

 

Bronwen, do you think it is brass?

 

I can't tell. Does the photo capture the color accurately? Surprised not to see any verdigris when it looks so coppery.