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Re: Re: Re: An Authentic Tang dynasty or earlier dynasty Hongshan jade ax?

Posted By: Anita Mui
Posted Date: Jan 15, 2008 (08:49 AM)

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Dear Bill

*Jade of pre-Han and Han period is hardly ever decorated with Chinese characters in the form of the archaic seal script.*

I think I have quoted this sentence from Jessica Rawson�s book.
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Chico is a commercial forum, full of counterfeit products. They have to make sell to earn a living.

Selling 1 piece per month will break even. Buying from Skylink�s factory at USD 10.- but selling to the dumb collectors with making up theories of fakes, supported by the members of the "gang" soon after the piece was posted in the forum, then sell it for few hundred to thousand of US dollars to the dumb amateur jade collectors who were tempted to read that forum, the profits will be shared to those who join the con.

Those dumb collectors once realized that they have bought junk, they won't come back, and they won't tell anyone for what they were tricked. They will re-sell it to other dumb. Those who happened to read that fraud and forgery forum, they have learned next to nothing!

That axe is not a nephrite, it is a cheap hard material for making a tomb stone, a blasted black granite, some granite are hard, depending on the feldspars and quartz portions, the total Mohs Hardness of granite is from 5.5 to 7, and the color is even with less of feldspars and quartz glitters.

Pls notice that the factory could not create whitening and lumps of crystals out of granite. The whithening in the block of archaic characters is from sand blasting.

Sad but true.

Anita Mui

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