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Re: Re: Really great jade pieces or fakes?
Posted By: Stan
Posted Date: Jan 04, 2008 (11:17 AM)
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This auction house is a "favorite" of mine. From it, I learned two great life lessons when I started collecting.

They were auctioning a Japanese woodblock print they identified as a Hiroshige. I identified it as a Hokusai. I asked for better pictures and what I got were blurry and not helpful. I bid and won it with an absentee bid. It turned out to be a Hokusai from recarved blocks. I wasted $568 on a $75 print.

My lessons learned:

1) I never buy an item unless I can hold it in my hands and inspect it carefully.

2) I must be 100% correct. To this day, my wife reminds of this mistake. Funny, she never reminds me of the time I paid $543 for about $3000 worth of Hiroshige I and Hiroshige II prints.

Cheers,
Stan

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