{"id":6764,"date":"2018-07-20T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=6764"},"modified":"2018-07-27T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T22:24:19","slug":"very-interesting-mystery-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/very-interesting-mystery-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Old, used Urhobo mask, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_extra\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\" style=\"padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: #ccc 1px solid;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"font-size: small; text-decoration: none; font-family: 'Calibri'; font-weight: normal; color: #000000; font-style: normal; display: inline;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\">\n<div class=\"m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312Created m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312on m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312Form m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312Builder\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#f7f9fc\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\">\n<table id=\"m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312emailFieldsTable\" class=\"m_3358412108640198925m_-6102717079007712312mceEditable\" style=\"color: #000000;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 5px !important;\" bgcolor=\"white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6765\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399a-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0 I found this mask at a thrift store. Can you tell me anything about it?<br \/>\nMike, 1399\u00a0 (no email address)A:\u00a0 This appears to be a museum quality mask, not a fake. I have shown it to several dealers and collectors, all of whom have different opinions. Now it is published on the Mask Man blog and I am waiting for your opinion.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>After we hear from you I&#8217;ll make a decision and post a comment for all to see. Then something nice will be sent to the winner.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6766\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399b-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6767\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/aaaMystrySolvd-1399c-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 I found this mask at a thrift store. Can you tell me anything about it? Mike, 1399\u00a0 (no email address)A:\u00a0 This appears to be a museum quality mask, not a fake. I have shown it to several dealers and collectors, all of whom have different opinions. Now it is published on the Mask Man blog and I am waiting for your opinion. After we hear from you I&#8217;ll make a decision and post a comment for all to see. Then something nice will be sent to the winner.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6764","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\/6764","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=6764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6764\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}