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Old 17th December 2012, 08:40 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Robert Coleman
Hello Detlef, Like Rick I am pretty sure that this is supposed to represent an elephants head with the trunk and the short tusk shown quite clearly. The small ears would be an Asian elephant if memory serves me correctly. How the seller could see a rams head in this carving is beyond me.


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Robert
Hello Robert,

have to agree, I have seen in the tusks the mouth of the figure. So is Tim maybe correct, Thailand, Burma seems a very good point.

Hope that someone will be able to tell us more.

Regards,

Detlef
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