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Jade Snuff Bottle
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 Antique Chinese green jade stone snuff bottle 206  US $19.00
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About Becoming An Antique Collector
Before buying anything; make a point of studying books and catalogues (even old ones) on your subject, then attend a few auctions, be sure to inspect your choice of antiques on the viewing days before the auction, always allow enough time to visit and explore the main dealers' stock, both before and after any auction sales. This way you will gradually be able to assess what quality items are available and the prices being currently asked. Make a point of chatting to dealers, or well-known collectors, about what has happened after an auction. Not always, but sometimes one can gain quite a lot of useful guidance about particular pieces, what to look out for and importantly about the general feelings about any record breaking prices.
After an auction it can be possible sometimes to find that a dealer might have a similar quality piece, or even a better one, for much less than has just been paid! A note of caution here, sometimes a really silly price is paid in the auction room, simply because two determined people badly wanted that piece. In such a case of course, that value has to be discounted to a certain extent. It is this sort of information that should be sought (in my earlier suggestion of chatting at the end of the auction).
Buying Guidance
The best advice for anyone tempted to collect any antiques would be, first, to study your choice of subject and attend auctions, meet and talk to the dealers, handle and see as many pieces as possible. Do not rush in to buy because unfortunately trying to collect, in any specialised antique area, it often takes many years to acquire the necessary expertise, without which, very costly mistakes can be made. Once you feel more confident you should then be prepared to commission a well-known specialist dealer to bid for you. You would have to expect to pay at least 10% (of the bid price) for this service. But this can be well worth paying, as you will not only benefit from his knowledge and guidance, you will also stop him bidding against you!
Only another collector can fully appreciate that overpowering urge, that comes over one, on finding a treasure really wanted. It is the closest feeling to that of love at first sight. I have been told that one's pupils tend to enlarge, and this is one of the signs that dealers watch out for, and as collectors, of course, we always try desperately to camouflage our interest.
Auctions
Strange things certainly do happen at auction! If there is only one spectacular piece amongst some fairly good items, there is a good chance of picking up a bargain, both just before and just after, the really super piece. Before, the main buyers are often holding back hoping they can be in with a chance with their maximum bid, so they tend to stop bidding as high as they might have done in normal circumstances. Immediately after, because everyone is discussing what has just been paid, especially if a record price was reached, all this can be going on whilst another piece slips through and is sold.
There are also items known as 'sleepers' and often these are pieces that are sold at bargain prices, just because no one present required it, or for some reason it was overlooked.
Attending a poor auction (this is one with only one or two good items in it, amongst a lot of junk) can be advantageous, if there is a fine example to be had. Quite a number of buyers feel they cannot afford the time in attending such a poor auction. Sadly this does not happen so much now.
Sometimes too, but not often, a piece is wrongly described. Then one can, if lucky, really find a bargain. Once we bought a jade snuff bottle that is so remarkably well hollowed and such a flawless piece of stone, that it was in fact sold wrongly catalogued as glass! We had to buy it from a well-known dealer (preferring to pay him a good profit, rather than keep bidding it up against him) in the end it wasn't cheap - but it is one of the finest we have ever seen!
We no longer believe much in trying to find bargains, as we have found that the most expensive, but finest examples, over time, are often by far the best buys! We have worried about having paid too much on several occasions. They were very rare, superb examples, but still we worried. Yet these are now the treasures that have proved to be the most wonderful bargains of all!
Beyond Value
Lastly, there is one important factor that has not been mentioned, as it is so impossible to measure! That is the value of the pleasure one enjoys from participating, as a collector, in such a fascinating hobby as collecting antiques is hard to describe.
You also meet such interesting people from all over the world, for there is an immediate bond amongst fellow collectors, except when met at the beginning of an auction!
Then there is the intrigue of the hunt and the excitement at every new addition that only another collector can fully appreciate. Life is so enriched, I do believe that such hobbies are vital, and so many people who have hardly any outside interests, beyond their world of work, have no idea of just how much fun they are missing!
The author has been a very keen collector for many years in helping to create ‘The Cohen Collection’.
To see some more articles with photographs please use the following link: - http://www.jncohen.net/antiques/articles.htm
Also to learn more about ‘The Cohen Collection’ please use the following link: - http://www.jncohen.net/Cohen_collection
Chinese Jade And The Relationship Between Good Health
Jade is processed by the gem minerals, precious stones generally have four characteristics, beautiful: crystal bright, dazzling; durable: texture hard, durable; rare: less production, has some value; small size, stylish, easy to carry. There are thousands of natural minerals, which have a beautiful, durable and suitable for processing as only a hundred kinds of jade, and jewelry can do is only ten species.
Jade usually include jade, jasper, Jing Bai, and nephrite, jade, Xiu jade, white and blue jade, topaz, blue nephrite, Beijing and other powder Tsui. Chemical composition of the stone, mainly sodium, calcium, magnesium, aluminum and other trace elements in silicate composed of water. Jade is formed in the crystallization of china gemstone wholesaler igneous rocks; metamorphic rocks at high temperature melting re-crystallization and the formation of these two effects by the formation of the jade, and then by water erosion, transport and after deposition, and formation of gravel mixed sand jade ore deposition mine.
Jade color variety, such as the white is pure white the most expensive but flawless suet fine jade; green is the emerald treasure, pure green, shades appropriate for the top grade, may be green holly leaves by the sun after rain The mapping showed the green green is the best. Others include black, gray, yellow, red, and other colors, but no time to require transparent, thin and are moist, translucent, small size for the high quality goods. Jade produced in China is the world's most ancient and most famous national, national gem varieties have been found 58, 270 multiple origin, mainly in Yunnan, Xinjiang, Guangxi and Henan and other places.
China since ancient times, "Jade Country," the reputation, the ancients regarded jade as something precious, as Jane decorative wear, such as the 1951 Huaian Ching Lin Kong found a batch of five thousand years ago with high technological level of jade Jewelry.
China jade carving craft has 3000 years of history, the arts of fine, name as many have already known in the world, such as the 1976 Anyang Yin Ruins excavated brutality jade; in 1968 Hebei city is excavated at gold engraving jade vest, with more than 2000 pieces Xiaoyu tablet made of the four corners of each piece of jade with a hole, put together with money to each other, reflecting 2000 years ago in ancient China jewelry supplier superb jade cutting and processing refined skills; also the Yuan dynasty, Beijing City Mission North Sea jade urn, Palace re-Yu Wan jin's "Da Yu" Jade Mountain, are recognized the world priceless.
Chinese ancient medical book called "Jade is a beautiful stone, sweet and flat non-toxic", and that jade is the most abundant body stocking material strength. Therefore not only as a jade lock jade, jade plate means, bracelets, anklets, lanyards, snuff bottles, as well as decorations, decorating, health fitness is also used. Since ancient times, all toward each emperor concubines health separated from jade, Yucheng Wei, fresh air, Huizong L. Yucheng addiction, Yang Yuhuan summer town with jade, jade was blowing and other holding the Empress Dowager Cixi.
Modern technology that jade containing zinc, magnesium, copper, selenium, chromium, manganese, cobalt and other trace elements beneficial to human body, often wearing jade trace elements which can be absorbed through the skin the body and help 人体各器官 physiological function coordination equilibrium. Some jade with daytime absorption, emission at the physical characteristics, when the jade spot targeting a point when the body can stimulate the meridians, and clear the dirty pulp, significant health care function. Dorsal wrist elderly have "pension points", wear a jade bracelet, can play the efficacy of massage can not only improve elderly blurred vision, but also build strength, raise the spirit. Mouth with jade, can make use of nutrients contained in the saliva of china gemstone the synergy with lysozyme can thirst, in addition to stomach heat, flat tired of melancholy, Zi Sheng throat, keep hair, build strength, raise the spirit.
Also, with the color of green jade and green jade made the U.S. wine, not only elegant, but also wine function, change the wine's structure, so that wine becomes sweet and mellow, Ruanmian palatability.
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does anyone know of a website where i can post pics of my antiques and people can let me know what i have?
I have some antiques that I'm not sure who made them or where they came from i know one is a snuff bottle and one is a jade dagger pendent other than that i don't know anything about them so can any recommend a web site with forms for that kind of thing?
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The Joe Grimberg Collection of Chinese Snuff Bottles at Sotheby's New York
An Enamel On Copper Snuff Bottle, Imperial, Attributed to the Palace Workshops, Beijing, Qianlong Mark And Period (1736-1795), est. US$250/350,000. Photo: Sotheby's.
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