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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pocket Change, post: 473978, member: 8012&quot;]I spent 20 years in Africa and became a very minor collector of African Masks.&nbsp; Same thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can find a zillion people to hand make the mask.&nbsp; Now the trick was to &quot;wear it down&quot; so it would look like it was 75 years old.&nbsp; Absolutely no science involved at all.&nbsp; Put a bunch of &#039;em in burlap bags, hang them from the rafter and when someone didn&#039;t have anything to do, go up to the bag and mish-mash them around.&nbsp; Do this for a few weeks.&nbsp; Throw away the bad ones and the remaining ones look legit.</p><p><br /></p><p>It almost gets philosophical.&nbsp; When the experts can&#039;t tell a fake from the real thing, what&#039;s the difference?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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