Thread: Fake Fakir?
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Old 21st January 2014, 06:32 PM   #3
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The patina on the brass appears to indicate some age as well as the softness of the contours. Most tourist pieces of any type, particularly those made in India today have rough edges from poor workmanship and do not have that type of patina at all which is quite difficult to fake. I don't see modern workmanship here, but instead a late 19th-early 20th C. example, possibly earlier.

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