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jordan200023

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Can anyone please help me with this?
« on: May 16, 2014, 04:22:05 am »
I need a hand in identifying the statue.

cogar

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2014, 05:08:50 am »
I'll make a guess and say its name is ...... the "Impregnator" or "Fertility Devil".  ;D ;D ;D

How did you acquire it.

Is it made of metal, ...... brass, bronze, etc.?

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2014, 05:15:31 am »
it was at the bottom of a box of iteams i got from an auction. i don't think it belonged in the box because everything else was antique Chinese artifacts.
And I'm just pretty sure it is made out of bronze but I don't know.

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2014, 06:23:54 am »
Looks like a bad imitation of a ancient greek Satyr statuette. These are sold in Greece as souvenirs, but it may have been made somewhere else of course.
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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2014, 07:51:02 am »
Agree with Mat.

Here is a page with other interpretations over time
http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/sex-and-single-satyr.html
I'm from the South - but please don't mistake my Southern Manners/Accent/Charm as a weakness!

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2014, 10:28:14 am »
Mmmm,, think I will keep my mouth shut !!  ;D

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2014, 03:47:18 am »
 ::) ::) ::) ;D

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2014, 04:08:43 am »
hey cogar thanks for for helping out. i have another item if u don't mind. its from Kenya.

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2014, 08:51:40 pm »
Can`t read the tape,, how big ?? Are they marked ??  Or,,how do you know they are from Kenya ??

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Re: Can anyone please help me with this?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2014, 05:35:43 am »
Mart, they are appx. 33" long.

Apparently carved horn or ivory tusk.