{"id":2654,"date":"2015-07-04T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2015-10-26T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:35:26","slug":"nicely-sculpted-guatemalan-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/nicely-sculpted-guatemalan-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicely sculpted Guatemalan mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2655\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2655\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-801-139x300.jpg\" alt=\"By the same carver?\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-801-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-801.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By the same carver?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0I have two masks I am interested in selling. These masks were purchased at an estate auction of a diplomat who lived in Alexandria, VA. \u00a0I bought them at an antiques shop. \u00a0The seller thinks they might be from Mexico, but he is uncertain. \u00a0I typically &#8220;pick&#8221; items for resale on ebay. \u00a0I would be interested in purchasing an appraisal for the masks, or I might be interested in selling them to you if you were interested. \u00a0Not sure of the best route to take.\u00a0 Mike, 800<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong>\u00a0 As you know, submitting more than one mask is discouraged on the Mystery Mask blog. So are requests for monetary value. <!--more-->Moving on to the good stuff, this mask will look great on the wall from any angle. It is an entertaining portrait in wood, and I like the other one almost as much. Where in Guatemala do they come from? Or could they be from somewhere in Mexico? Are they as old as they look? We&#8217;re they done by the same guy or even in the same country? I think we should try to learn more about these two before you sell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 \u00a0I have two masks I am interested in selling. These masks were purchased at an estate auction of a diplomat who lived in Alexandria, VA. \u00a0I bought them at an antiques shop. \u00a0The seller thinks they might be from Mexico, but he is uncertain. \u00a0I typically &#8220;pick&#8221; items for resale on ebay. \u00a0I would be interested in purchasing an appraisal for the masks, or I might be interested in selling them to you if you were interested. \u00a0Not sure of the best route to take.\u00a0 Mike, 800 A:\u00a0 As you know, submitting more than one mask is discouraged on the Mystery Mask blog. So are requests for monetary value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654","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=2654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2654\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}