We have a new inro, gilded bronze with the remnants of seal paste (red ink based on cinnabar or mercury II sulphide), and two netsuke with some ojime. One netsuke and various beads and ojime are attached to the inro. The netsuke is made from the mother of pearl from of shells, joined with something like pitch. The other is a very bad plastic reproduction. It is so bad that it was obvious from the auction room's photograph. I will write a blog entry about the resin netsuke in the collection and why we have put them into the catalogue some time.
I have made separate images (below) of the plastic netsuke and the nice inro and mother-of-pearl netsuke from the auction catalogue image. I will photograph and describe them in our catalogue when I have time. I am working hard on updating the Japanese prints websites at present.