Found this is a charity shop in the UK – found the colour to be suspicious but wondered if you guys had any input – it holds water, doesn’t absorb. Light grey (concrete coloured lol) see both wet and dry in images
Looks real to me. Wipe it down with a dry cloth and run your finger over an area a few times. If you get a bunch of weird dust it’s probably concrete, if not it’s likely real.
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Looks like a real one to me. I have an 100+ year one made out of volcanic rock that has been in my wife’s family forever. It looks very simillar to yours. How heavy is it? It should be fairly light if its made out of volcanic rock.
A way you can test is take a sharp knife and scrape your Molcajete and if it leaves a deep scratch it would be a fake. The other thing you can do is press the pestle in the molcajete and make little grinding motions and smell the molcajete. If it smells like cement its fake. You might smell something sulfuric. If you smells something sulfuric it is definitely a genuine Molcajete. Just Remember not all volcanic rocks give off the sulfur smell.
I personally think yours is a real one based on how it looks. It looks like it was made out of volcanic rock and if you notice its not perfectly even. These are typically carved out of a big volcanic rocks so it will never be perfectly symmetrical.
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Any help appreciated!
Looks real to me. Wipe it down with a dry cloth and run your finger over an area a few times. If you get a bunch of weird dust it’s probably concrete, if not it’s likely real.
Looks like a real one to me. I have an 100+ year one made out of volcanic rock that has been in my wife’s family forever. It looks very simillar to yours. How heavy is it? It should be fairly light if its made out of volcanic rock.
A way you can test is take a sharp knife and scrape your Molcajete and if it leaves a deep scratch it would be a fake. The other thing you can do is press the pestle in the molcajete and make little grinding motions and smell the molcajete. If it smells like cement its fake. You might smell something sulfuric. If you smells something sulfuric it is definitely a genuine Molcajete. Just Remember not all volcanic rocks give off the sulfur smell.
I personally think yours is a real one based on how it looks. It looks like it was made out of volcanic rock and if you notice its not perfectly even. These are typically carved out of a big volcanic rocks so it will never be perfectly symmetrical.
Yes, it is real
Yes, it is real
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Sure looks like it to me.