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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2933917, member: 10461&quot;]Yep.&nbsp; But there was still a craftsman, and some sweethearts, and a story there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not everyone had the skills to do this, after all.&nbsp; And the upside to these &quot;stock design&quot; pieces is that the people who carved them had <i>mad</i> skills.&nbsp; The exceptionally high quality of the engraving is another tipoff that a pro did it.&nbsp; If the average Joe Schmo had carved this for his gal, it wouldn&#039;t be much to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, I&#039;ve never seen another with this pair of owls.&nbsp; That&#039;s why I snapped this piece up, and for strongish money, too.&nbsp; I just <i>suspect</i> there might have once been others, due to the similarity to the &quot;frogs&quot; pieces I mentioned.&nbsp; (Of which I&#039;ve seen exactly <i>two</i> examples in ten years.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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