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Rare Lladro Rosal or Tang X - Large Eagle

The details on this bird definitely indicate that it is one of the Lladró brands, probably a Rosal or a Tang. These two brands were in conflict during the 1960s, when a group of Lladró sculptors split off from the main Lladró brand and tried to start their own company (which I believe can be subsequently identified as Tang). The Rosal brand was created by the Lladró brothers as a temporary brand to fight off the threat of the Tang brand. (Eventually, the Lladró brothers prevailed in a court suit and put Tang out of business.) During this period, the two brands would occasionally be marked wither with an impressed mark or a sticker that later came off.