Message #10278

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Giovanni,
   I'm sorry if I misunderstood. I thought you were 'grasping at straws' to defend this bottle as genuine, when I know categorically that it is not. And using the example of a late 19th C. genuine but mediocre Cinnabar lacquer with a false mark, which sold for less than US$900, to prove it genuine, just doesn't work.

   Trust me when I say I'd love to be able to tell you that you bought a genuine 19th C. Imperial marked bottle for pennies. It's happened to me; it can happen to you as well, through blind luck (like me ) or through knowledge (as has also happened to me ); but not this time.

   Incidentally, re. cinnabar lacquer coated gold snuff bottles; they weight 11 oz. each You KNOW if you've got one!
The idea was, that looters would see the cinnabar bottles, see them as having little if any resale value, and ignore them. If they troubled to lift them, they'd have discovered very quickly how heavy they were, vis a vis real lacquer bottles.

  Best Wishes,
Shabbat Shalom,

Joey