{"id":1906,"date":"2014-07-02T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T20:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:47:21","slug":"maybe-old-and-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/maybe-old-and-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe old and used"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1907\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1907\" alt=\"West Africa\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-653.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-653.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-653-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 I am fascinated by old items, but have no interest in commercial masks. This mask was found in an old explorer\/adventurer estate auction. He had been traveling Africa on digs in the 50&#8217;s. I have little or no idea of the origin or age, but is sure it is not commercial, but an original.\u00a0 653<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> Based on the three beautiful photos you sent in I think there may be some collector interest in this mask.<!--more--> I would agree that it looks like it might be old and used. What is frustrating is that it seems to combine different tribal design criteria. Let&#8217;s hope someone will help us identify it properly. However, it is almost always impossible to authenticate tribal usage and age from photographs. Many African masks are artificially aged in a very convincing manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I am fascinated by old items, but have no interest in commercial masks. This mask was found in an old explorer\/adventurer estate auction. He had been traveling Africa on digs in the 50&#8217;s. I have little or no idea of the origin or age, but is sure it is not commercial, but an original.\u00a0 653 A:\u00a0 Based on the three beautiful photos you sent in I think there may be some collector interest in this mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}