Beware of items being sold from China that are supposedly rare and ancient artifacts as 99.99% of these are actually very cheap, low quality reproductions. When i first started buying and selling in Ebay...
I decided to write this guide with the intention of (hopefully) helping you learn some important,usefull and interesting information about ivory,this guide should be helpfull to everyone,not just people...
There are Many Items on Ebay which are Called Original Japanese Woodblock Prints but finding One that is Described Accurately is Not always an Easy Task. I have Tried to Write an Over View of Japanese...
A Brief Introduction To Spotting Fake Jade Firstly it is important to realise that with Jade, even if you are in a shop and touching it, is very difficult to tell the genuine from the fake. Some cheap resins...
My dear old Mum-in-law bought me a ceramic figure, one of the eight immortals. Not from the web or ebay but from a dealer in Cornwall. He told the 83 year old that it was by a Japanese called 'Lu Dong Bin'...
Tattoo art in Burmese Culture You will notice in my shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Naga-Store I am an avid collector of tattooing implements from Burma. The place of tattoos in different cultures...
There are still good swords out there!!!! Recently I was asked to bid on a sword for a friend as he would be away, auction rooms are not my favorite place and never have been but as a favour ( a bottle of...
As you will see I sell Burmese opium weights in auctions and through my shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Naga-Store quite regularly. Many buyers I suspect could do with more information on the history of the...
All the three pictures: left Kangxi; right Guangxu It is very subtle to tell the difference between Kangxi porcelain and Guangxu porcelain. They are both the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) production, althoug one is...
netsuke are toggles which were fastened to the sash of a kimono and from which could be suspended everything a man or a woman needed to carry around with them. The most favoured material was ivory for its...