Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Sep 15, 2009 (01:43 PM)
Hi, I received your email and am providing the requested further comments here for the sake of general interest. This wood carving ranks high in quality among those I've seen, though the cracking detracts from it, and I would not worry about insuring it. These items were popular during the Vietnam war, resulting in large numbers of them accumulating through purchases and gift-giving by personnel from the USA and other countries associated with that conflict. Many original owners have begun to achieve an age where they're starting to drift off "to that big ol' PX (military post exchange) in the sky", so there are a lot of these carvings turning up in garage and estate sales these days. They come in all sizes, often configured as candle holders or made into lamps.
You indicate that you had problems with a "link" though I didn't provide one before. If you encountered difficulties trying to crank up wikipedia.com, it may be you found a copycat site or your PC issued an error message because it lacks a basis for converting the Chinese characters that are interspersed in the English text. Anyway, here's the link to the page I mentioned on the Immortals along with snapshots of all of them for your scrapbook (from a vase with mark shown).
Cheers,
Bill H.
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