requesting wisdom

[incandescens]

Ladies, fish, and gentlemen (I'm listening to Blue Oyster Cult), your assistance, please.

On Monday, while visiting York, I wandered into a crafts/antiques sale thing and picked up a couple of statuettes for seven pounds the pair. They're about ten inches high, and feel as if they're made of wood. (Too heavy to be plastic.)

I cannot find any identifying marks on them, except for an R.B. carved into each. I can't even identify the culture they come from.

I don't expect them to turn out to be lost masterpieces (apart from in my wildest dreams), and am quite prepared for them to turn out to be mass-produced or whatever, and will still keep them, but has anyone seen anything like them? Or can anyone identify the national costumes?

http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/0005p0kx/g32 - front view
http://pics.livejournal.com/incandescens/pic/0005qby0/g32 - back view

Comments

[barbara-hambly.livejournal.com]

I'd guess Chinese also. They look like the kind of (mass-produced) quasi-art one found in Chinese import-shops in Los Angeles and San Francisco fifteen or twenty years ago. The ones I'm thinking of were made of a sort of heavy plastic, almost PVC or resin. But of course, it's hard to tell on a picture.

[incandescens]

Thank you very much!

I suspect you're right. Oh well, they're still pretty.