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Which figure is which
Most of the statues in this catalogue can be identified from across a room, once you know that the hands are doing the talking.
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What came out of the workshops, and the people who made it.
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Fire-gilding, and how to tell it from plating
Both look like gold on the day you buy. One of them is still gold in twenty years, and the wear pattern usually tells you which.
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Choosing a size
Heights here run from three inches to nearly three feet. Which one is right is decided by the shelf, not by the budget.
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What oxidized actually means
The dark finish is not an absence of gold. It is a deliberate surface, and it is the one that shows the chasing best.
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What actually decides a statue's price
Not the weight and not the height. The answer is in the face, and in whether the gold was fired on or plated.
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