{"id":4147,"date":"2016-05-07T16:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2016-05-13T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:31:16","slug":"very-puzzling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/very-puzzling\/","title":{"rendered":"Very puzzling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4148\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-965-a\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> I purchased a mask from a second hand shop in Shrewsbury, UK, last weekend. The mask is wooden but very light and is decorated with engraved lines. Some of the raised sections are highlighted with red, blue and white paint although this is quite well worn. The mask cost \u00a360 and the seller believes it is from the early 1900s but didn&#8217;t have any definite information. I love the mask, which is why I bought it, but I would like to know more about its history and I hope that you or one of your readers can help.\u00a0 Christine, 965<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> I too find this mask attractive. Wish I knew what it was. Please, dear reader, give Christine and I some help identifying this interesting carving. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4149\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-965-b\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/aaaMystrySolvd-965-b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I purchased a mask from a second hand shop in Shrewsbury, UK, last weekend. The mask is wooden but very light and is decorated with engraved lines. Some of the raised sections are highlighted with red, blue and white paint although this is quite well worn. The mask cost \u00a360 and the seller believes it is from the early 1900s but didn&#8217;t have any definite information. I love the mask, which is why I bought it, but I would like to know more about its history and I hope that you or one of your readers can help.\u00a0 Christine, 965 A:\u00a0 I too find this mask attractive. Wish I knew what it was. Please, dear reader, give Christine and I some help identifying this interesting carving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}