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Subject:Little statue question
Posted By: J Mon, Apr 14, 2014 IP: 50.173.214.163
My dad was in the Air Force, and I believe he would go to Korea a lot, and or Japan not sure. I have these 2 statues, there were 3 but my brother took 1 I have the other 2, but they are really nice figures carved I think from ivory, but really I have no idea. On the bottom there is either writing or symbols. Maybe somebody on here can tell me what it says?





Subject:Re: Little statue question
Posted By: rat Tue, Apr 15, 2014
not ivory but plastic or resin. In Japanese the mark reads Kokusai. There was a Japanese netsuke artist working in the second half of the 19th century named Ozaki Kokusai, but this is a modern creation, no relation to that artist's works. I don't know whether a Korean artist with the same name existed.

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Subject:Re: Little statue question
Posted By: J Wed, Apr 16, 2014
thank you very much!

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