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Old cinnabar snuff bottle?

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« on: February 04, 2017, 03:29:11 pm »

Dear Elisha and Joey,

I have to say that things on this bottle look a little wrong to me although it's hard to tell with the image size.

If you look into the neck of the bottle you can see that the metal doesn't continue into the neck as it would if the whole body was made of metal. The material you can see inside the neck looks the same as on the outside although it looks rougher than it would on a resin copy which are normally drilled straight down into the body and so look smoother. The surface of the bottle looks wrong in that it has a shine on the flatter surfaces but looses that shine in other areas.

The detail on the bottle would make it very hard to both take a mould from and to mould a new copy from without trapping any air which would cause bubbles and hollows on the surface yet I can't see any.

Regards, Adrian.
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