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<p>[QUOTE="Jay D, post: 222579, member: 4118"]In all fairness, he was basing everything on photos he had been shown. He talked a good game to me. Throwing around fancy words and some things he pointed out made sense. I knew absolutely nothing about rhino horn prior to these. They were just fine last year when I didn't even ponder what hoofed beast donated this BAD HAIR DAY monstrosity to the craftsman that brought someones future wedding gift to life.What I do know is the pool of knowledge contained within this group is diverse, far reaching and pretty dang cool. Persons' use or abuse of words doesn't bother me much. I'm not easily offended when interacting with someone who has confidence in what they are telling me. I appreciate any and all comments. The man who evaluated the photo's seems to have a decent profession which requires a higher than average knowledge set and ( not that it matters ) he is of Asian decent. He explained each set of items in the pair made sense. But putting all of them together the way they are just don't seem logical. The carving and shaping workmanship was good enough where it needed to be unlike the underside of the "base" pieces. As my Uncle says..It was finely whittled with a dull axe. The maker made use of as much of 2 horns as he could. I'm sure carving each item wasted a good portion of it. He said I have the makings of a DIY Home Offering Worship Kit. If indeed my God liked me to burn incense,put out some nice flowers have a drink on him and say good things I have the hook up. We have to smoke outside because somebody borrowed the brass ashtray that used to be setting in that short lonely piece in the middle of one "base". </p><p>He did make an offer of sorts. If I could provide all necessary paperwork needed to keep him from giving free advice to his future cellmates at Sing Sing Prison for some blah blah blah - a couple of important words- more blah blah blah which I told him I fully understood. Then we could schedule something to see if a mutually beneficial agreement could be reached. I tried to just put them back on the shelf where they have been for years. In the middle of shimming this side, facing this side to the wall so it cant fall and safe proofing these unbalanced works of art a little flame lit in me. It smells like I just gotta know what the heck these are.I also like long walks on the beach, hot food and those plastic utensils they give you that look like a fork AND a spoon but can't perform either duty. (Joke) Now my new much smarter than I friends, you can say you've read my life story and something about prison food today. I would appreciate your comments and direction. I'm not sure if FED REG's allow me keep them, sell them or give them to a favorite Uncle that's getting married on his 4th journey thru life with his soul mate blah blah blah....thank you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jay D, post: 222579, member: 4118"]In all fairness, he was basing everything on photos he had been shown. He talked a good game to me. Throwing around fancy words and some things he pointed out made sense. I knew absolutely nothing about rhino horn prior to these. They were just fine last year when I didn't even ponder what hoofed beast donated this BAD HAIR DAY monstrosity to the craftsman that brought someones future wedding gift to life.What I do know is the pool of knowledge contained within this group is diverse, far reaching and pretty dang cool. Persons' use or abuse of words doesn't bother me much. I'm not easily offended when interacting with someone who has confidence in what they are telling me. I appreciate any and all comments. The man who evaluated the photo's seems to have a decent profession which requires a higher than average knowledge set and ( not that it matters ) he is of Asian decent. He explained each set of items in the pair made sense. But putting all of them together the way they are just don't seem logical. The carving and shaping workmanship was good enough where it needed to be unlike the underside of the "base" pieces. As my Uncle says..It was finely whittled with a dull axe. The maker made use of as much of 2 horns as he could. I'm sure carving each item wasted a good portion of it. He said I have the makings of a DIY Home Offering Worship Kit. If indeed my God liked me to burn incense,put out some nice flowers have a drink on him and say good things I have the hook up. We have to smoke outside because somebody borrowed the brass ashtray that used to be setting in that short lonely piece in the middle of one "base". He did make an offer of sorts. If I could provide all necessary paperwork needed to keep him from giving free advice to his future cellmates at Sing Sing Prison for some blah blah blah - a couple of important words- more blah blah blah which I told him I fully understood. Then we could schedule something to see if a mutually beneficial agreement could be reached. I tried to just put them back on the shelf where they have been for years. In the middle of shimming this side, facing this side to the wall so it cant fall and safe proofing these unbalanced works of art a little flame lit in me. It smells like I just gotta know what the heck these are.I also like long walks on the beach, hot food and those plastic utensils they give you that look like a fork AND a spoon but can't perform either duty. (Joke) Now my new much smarter than I friends, you can say you've read my life story and something about prison food today. I would appreciate your comments and direction. I'm not sure if FED REG's allow me keep them, sell them or give them to a favorite Uncle that's getting married on his 4th journey thru life with his soul mate blah blah blah....thank you.[/QUOTE]
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