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I have this small (2-3 inch) carved skull with a dragon wrapped around it. It is made from a black substance that I have no clue what it is! It seems too light to be a stone and there is no grain to indicate that it is a type of wood. Any help in any aspect would be most appreciated...it might not even be asian!

Possibly a very dark amber. (The chinese and japanese both carved in this material)normally more orange than this but it does come darker...the colour of the carve lines makes me think it possibly is amber!
See where you get looking into that..

Ok the amber thing would make sense. As it is not heavy enough for anything mineral and seems not to be anything wood-like. Thanks I will have a look.

Fractures seem to indicate that it is wood.
Ernest

Not fractures, carved areas with light edges.... Posters said not wood...

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