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Hornbill Ivory bottle symbolism

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« on: April 05, 2016, 03:41:39 pm »

Dear all,
I don't agree with you. Marcos, if the bottle is made of pieces of hornbill joined together, then you must see the joining lines. I don’t see them in your pictures. Also, we should see abrupt variations in the red, while we only see smooth fading. The only piece clearly joined is the collar. About the holes/bubbles, some of them looks purposely placed, but others has a non-sense placing. So only Marcos could inspect carefully the bottle and determine, by the shape of the bottom of the holes, if all them are holes or not. And comparing the body with the real hornbill one (the first one) determine if it is the same material or not.
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Giovanni
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