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...
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'...
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...
If anyone is thinking about purchasing anything like netsuke from anywhere in Hong Kong or China then you need to be aware that it is most probably a copy made yesterday !! and not an antique as the write ups...
Beware of any items labelled antiques that are being sent from either China or Hong Kong.While they may seem to be a bargain they are very often just very good copies of original items, and if you know that in...