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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: Skinny on March 18, 2018, 01:26:34 PM
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I have this little Pre Columbian style deer effigie vessle. I've posted it on here before and the opinion I got then was that it's a fake. I've done some home tests on it and the resuts point toward it possibly being an old piece of pottery that was once buried. I only paid $30 for it so it doesn't matter too much either way.
The question I have today is about the two labels that are on it. Looks like some kind of catalogue code. Like something museums do maybe? Look familiar to anyone?
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The second label
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One more pic of the object itself
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Unless you know the museums system for cataloging anything is just a guess !!
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Mart I'm sure you're right. I was thinking there might be some sort of standard method that would be recognizable and perhaps indicate what sort of institution might have placed these tags
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Yeah, doesn't look like a museum mark to me, generally speaking they usually identify museum, the date when they receive it and a catalog number.
I have a painted blanket chest from a museum & they stamped/branded and painted their marks in inconspicuous spots, CHS = Connecticut Historical Society
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Whether "spurious" or not, the tags may be on there to represent field tags, put on at the time of excavation from a particular site.
The following is from an archeology guide:
"Mark every shard (that is big enough) with project and context identifiers. If it is required by the archive repository, additional information may include the year and the repository accession number."
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How did you get this figure ?? You said you bought it ? From who where what ect !!
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It came from Ebay. I bought this and two other pieces in a lot. One of the pieces seems to be most likely not an old piece. The other two do have characteristics of having been buried. They may all be fake, but they are just small plain little things with chips and cracks. They wouldn't be worth all that much anyway so I don't see someone going to the trouble myself, but honestly who knows
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Archaeological tags would make sence. That would explain why the one on the base says SCV4 A and the one in the throat says SCV4 B. They're two different pieces glued back together.