So how do you tell a Bulgarian clown from a Murano clown.
Where do you get 1998 from? Is that a connection to Bulgarian glass production I should investigate?
Anyhow, who ever made it, it must be a flagship of some kind as the scale. It is not something a tourist could easily carry in hand luggage post 9/11 and all the various restrictions ... it could have gone in a suitcase I suppose. If it were an imported item, retailed in the UK, it would have been expensive solely on transportation costs.
I remember before 9/11 people used to bring all kinds of stuff back on return flights from their holidays. Much of that has been made more difficult, but of course not impossible.
What am I on about?