i created this object for a test. as you can see the UV's. i  offset the UV for 1. so its perfect moved 1. that way there are not overlaping UV's.

 

now my question is if  i would have only one material group for both objects.......could i add 2 different textures to each object?

so my question is if we could offset the texture for 1 and then merge both textures in poser and map  it to both objects?