{"id":652,"date":"2013-08-21T22:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masksfromaroundtheworld.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2015-10-26T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T16:07:26","slug":"interesting-for-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/interesting-for-sure\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting for sure"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_645\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-645\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-532n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-645\" alt=\"Chokwe\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-532n.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-532n.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/aaaMystrySolvd-532n-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chokwe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q:<\/strong> I have an interesting and rare African mask that I would like to sell.\u00a0 I do not have experience in these matters and I would not like to be under-compensated for the piece.\u00a0 Theo, 532<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:<\/strong> Your Chokwe mask is attractive to tourists and collectors, but\u00a0does not have\u00a0much resale value. <!--more-->In books and museums there are carefully carved examples that have not been artificially aged. Check them out. They are very beautiful&#8230; but not what most of us can afford.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>B-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: I have an interesting and rare African mask that I would like to sell.\u00a0 I do not have experience in these matters and I would not like to be under-compensated for the piece.\u00a0 Theo, 532 A: Your Chokwe mask is attractive to tourists and collectors, but\u00a0does not have\u00a0much resale value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","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\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}