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Bottles with some historical meaning or significance

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« on: April 10, 2011, 06:14:54 pm »

Hi Bill  Smiley    Cheesy

Yes  , you  will   have a  ton to  catch up  on   ! This   forum is really  great fun .   I  spent  over an hour  last night   chatting  on line with Patriek and  I'm going to  order some books from Richard, who  it turns  out also  knows  Jill  very well.
Hope the  hike  goes  well.  My replacement  knee is  recovering  so maybe  we can make that trip   you once suggested  in China  looking at  arch-like  places  after  I retire  in a  couple  of years   Smiley

Back to  antique  bottles :

Pat  : when I    first started  collecting  I once bought    what I thought  was  an  antique  bottle  at a  very good  price  from a  Guangzhou  antique shop in the  tourist area   by the  White Swan hotel .  It  was sort  of   darkish  yellow  glass  and   faded  - a  very  detailed ancient  Chinese street scene . I asked  Bill  for advice and  he warned  me about  fake  antiques   and that  - incredibly -  some fake bottles  are actually a  transfer  stuck  on the  inside  of the  bottle ! Don't ask me  how  they  do that  : seems  more    difficult than actually painting inside. Anyway, I checked the   bottle   carefully, and sure  enough there  were  some  tiny  places  where the  transfer  had peeled  off  showing the   clear  glass.   Caveat   emptor  !  Having said that, it was  nothing like the   old  bottles   you  sent me pics  of   last night , which   obviously  are  truly inside  painted,  and  also  obviously very old judging from the  painting  styles.   Just that    you don't know  who painted them  ( yet  ) . Probably  Jill's  husband, Li Hui, in  BJ  can give  you  an opinion if  you  bring  them  for him to  examine.
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