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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 10:25:10 am »
Oh really? That's disappointing. Thanks for your input guys. I'm not entirely sure if their origins or how long my grandmother had them. I thought the marks on the bottom might've had to do with the grain of the ivory. On the bottom of the candelabra pic, you can sort of see lines on the side of it lining up with the marks on the bottom. I didn't even think of some kind of resin, but had figured they were not some kind of bone or marble. I'm guessing the test you do where you hold a heated pin or similar to the bottom should show this up yeah?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 09:56:42 am »
Thank you good sir  :)  I'm in Australia

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 09:45:12 am »
Cheers mate. That's fair enough. It's just that the pics are on my phone and for some reason I'm not having much luck completing a post if I try for any more than one  :-\
I'll have another go tomorrow. Do you have any idea if the large one is worth anything? I'm assuming that selling this kind of thing (assuming they are in fact, ivory)  is only possible if they aren't leaving the country right?

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 09:07:26 am »
Forgot to mention we are in adelaide, South Australia. This is probably relevant yeah?  ;D

There are more pics here:

http://campl.us/bCbaEmwTrlA

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Antique Questions Forum / Re: Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 09:00:11 am »
This is the largest one. I'm having trouble uploading more than one pic at a time. I will put some more up in a web link shortly

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Antique Questions Forum / Ivory sculptures...how to value/sell?
« on: June 23, 2013, 08:54:28 am »
Hey guys,

My mother has a few ivory (so we believe) statues that we are trying to find out more about. They've come from her mother in Germany. Does anyone have any advise as to whether these are genuine or how we could go about getting a more detailed appraisal and even potentially selling them? We have been on google all night and aren't having any luck... Any help is appreciated :)

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