I purchased this lovely carved horse chop today but I can not read the characters… is anyone with that skill willing to help me translate please? 
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It is a seal, so you have to flip the image horizontally
From left to right, top to bottom, it read: 維廉波拿特. Seems like an old transliteration of the English name "William Porter"
The modern Mandarin transliteration of "William Porter" is "威廉波特"
Judging from the crude penmanship, it is not from a famous, or even skilled artisan
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