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Subject:Expert on turkoise (turquoise)?
Posted By: Super Wed, Feb 24, 2016
A very valid question, Michael. Unfortunately, pipane believed if he lived in China or Hong Kong long enough, talked to some of their jade dealers/collectors, went to some museums, jade shops, without reading any books written by renown experts, he would be able to learn everything he could about things he collected. He would impress you with terms like patina, perforation techniques to show his expertise. Unfortunately, I had met such experts in this forum before, with one who even wrote three books that were for sales in Amazon.com about jade and other subjects, the sad thing is he basically based his jade expertise on jades in his collection which are all fakes. Another one claimed he knew how to authenticate real Hongshan jades and I discovered that he was also a fruad. Sadly, most of them did not believe they need to study (books) and can learn everything from their collecting experience alone and they are very confident about their expertise. In this case, pipane even spelled turkoise wrong (should be turquoise) and did he know the Chinese name for it? Did he examine any authentic Neolithic turquoise beads in person? Did he even test and see if it was real turquoise? Where did he learn about perforation techniques? The problem is you can pick up any piece of turquoise and it can be thousands years old, yet how did you confirm when it was made into a bead? That would be the 64 million dollar question. Sadly, without spending a lot of time or money (good books are not cheap) in studying the subject, it would be just his "expert" opinion rendered by him, just like he had recently appraised a white jade brush washer posted in this forum by Danny as that of Qing dynasty 300+ years old without knowing that it was simply not possible. I did write a message in explaining to him why his dating was dead wrong, not based on my personal opinions and/or collecting experience but rather quoting one of the most respected jade experts in China, Mr. Yang Boda. One cannot be an expert in any collecting fields without spending a lot of precious time and money in their hobby. I have been collecting Hong Kong and British Commonwealth coins my whole life and yet there are still a lot I do not know. For anybody to pretend he is an expert just from his own collecting experience, IMHO, is simply laughable. Please understand I am not saying that I do know more about jade than pipane or any people here. I don't but there are things about jade that I may know but pipane did not and vice versa. To be condescending to other collectors in order to show one's supremacy, to me is simply not how most experts in any fields will act. How did I know? I work with Nobel prize winners in my organization and they are all very humble people and you would never guess they had accomplished so much already.
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