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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4669511, member: 10461&quot;]Thank you.&nbsp; I thought so too.&nbsp; I&#039;ve been primarily a collector of 19th century love token carvings in the past.&nbsp; &quot;The Helmsman&quot; was the first modern hobo carving I managed to win at auction. </p><p><br /></p><p>The <i>good</i> modern carvings often sell for much more than their 19th century counterparts! This didn&#039;t make sense to me at first, but if you think about it, living artists need and deserve to be paid, while the dead ones don&#039;t care so much.</p><p><br /></p><p>David He is a scrimshaw artist, I believe; also producing knife handles and such.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another one of his hobo coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]n3sOeOEGy_c[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>Aleksey Saburov is the modern master whose work I&#039;d most like to own, but his original carvings run four figures, usually.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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