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Author Topic: St Louis (yeah, right...)  (Read 1039 times)

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Offline tropdevin

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St Louis (yeah, right...)
« on: February 03, 2009, 10:50:27 PM »
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I see why someone might think that this is antique French, but a closer inspection suggest Chinese to me. Or have I got it wrong?

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Re: St Louis (yeah, right...)
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2009, 05:46:22 AM »
Looks to be modern Chi to me with an improvement on their part on the latticino work

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Re: St Louis (yeah, right...)
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2009, 02:32:58 AM »
I've never seen a "Chinese" base like this, but perhaps I just haven't seen enough Chinese...

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Re: St Louis (no, wrong...)
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2009, 02:40:59 AM »
..if that weight is french, I will tip from berlin to tisburry on my knees....... ; :P
I presume chinese (PENGEIWEG) ;D

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