Hello from Zurich, Switzerland

[owly]

Hello friends of the Chinese snuff bottle! I am from Zurich, Switzerland and I am "snuffling" since 1998. In this time I gathered some experience in the field due to various contacts with members and dealers from the ICSBS to which I belong also. My enthusiasm is such that I recently published a two-volume Kindle book on my collection at Amazon which you are invited to dowload. I am mostly interested in good classic bottles of all kinds. However, I find the very modern inside painted ones very interesting also. The only bitter drop in the soup is the pricing. The bottles are so small and are yet often manyfold as dear as any Jeroboame bottle  of Château Lafite-Rothschild 1985   

Besides our common topic I have many other fields of interest, such as .....

Ulrich Oswald

[Steven]

Welcome to the Forum Ulrich!

I am so glad that you finally figured out how to post your first post.

I bet that you might find some of your friends here, since a few of our members are from ICSBS. I would love to see  and download your collection, would you provide a link?

Cheers!

Steven

[owly]

Hi Steven. Again many thanks for your help. Sometimes you don't find the wood but see only many trees.

As for links: I did make some sort of a website on Snuffles once but it was not good and subsequently I lost and forgot my password to the ftp server. Now I have written a book on my collection (printed and since yesterday as an ebook for Kindle). Anyone who is interested can search my name on the Kindle website and download it (two volumes!) or watch some of its pages.

Else: I can send you a .mobi or a .pdf file for your own gusto but this not the same as a link in html.
Perhaps we have a webmaster who could make a webpage out of the contents?

Tip: Check your regular email within the hour. I hope yor server allows 2x55 MB.

best regards

Ulrich Oswald (owly)

[George]

Hello and welcome Owly..

Looks like you figured out how to post..

Glad you found us and will talk with you more when I do not have to type with these little buttons on my phone..

[Fiveroosters aka clayandbrush]

Dear Ulrich,
welcome within us! I am from Italy and besides snuff bottles (not so much about very modern IP), on which I am relatively new, I am interested in Chinese ceramics. I travel from Milan to Stuttgart generally once or two a year. I have been there last month and will probably go again in June. Who knows I can stop in Zurich and shake your hand?
If I am not wrong (George please correct kme) you can upload the PDF files here on the forum.
Kind regards
Giovanni

[Peter Bentley 彭达理]

Hi  Ulrich

I am  Peter, from Hong Kong, collector  par  excellence * of Very  Modern  Inside  Painted   (Snuff)  Bottles ("VMIPB")

I  used to  work  for   a  Swiss- German - Liechtenstein  company  for   very  many  tens  of  years and  so I  am   very   well-acquainted   with   Switzerland,   especially  Balzers,  Liechtenstein.    <www.inficon.com> 

 Last  year  I  and  my Chinese    wife   toured  Switzerland  with    one  of  the  top   Chinese  dealers  in  Modern  IPBs  (a   family - couple  from  Beijing)

The  whole  Modern  (especially  Very  Modern)  IPB  field  is   very  exciting indeed !

I  do hope   you will  join the   Forum ! 

This   Forum is  unique  -  it's    free  and  it's  fun  and  above  all  it's INFORMATIVE !

Cheers

Peter

*  I  say  par  excellence ...  but what  I  really mean  is  par  enthusiasm   

[Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司]

Dear Ulrich,
    Welcome from me as well. I am also a member of the ICSBS, since  1974 ( I started collecting in Feb.1970, just a month before my 13th birthday), after having joined the Hong Kong Society of Michael Kaynes-Klitz in 1970.
   Best Wishes,
Joey

[Pat - 查尚杰]

Welcome Ulrich! 

I am a US collector living and working in Bangkok, but before used to live in China for 7 years, where I picked up the snuff bottle 'bug'.

[richy88]

Hi Ulrich

Welcome to the forum.

I am from Singapore.

Regards.


Richare

[owly]

Dear Ulrich,
welcome within us! I am from Italy and besides snuff bottles (not so much about very modern IP), on which I am relatively new, I am interested in Chinese ceramics. I travel from Milan to Stuttgart generally once or two a year. I have been there last month and will probably go again in June. Who knows I can stop in Zurich and shake your hand?
If I am not wrong (George please correct kme) you can upload the PDF files here on the forum.
Kind regards
Giovanni

[owly]

Ciao Giovanni!
I am agreeably surprised to meet here a neighbour from Lombardy. I shall be pleased to see you when you are passing by to Stuttgart. Just give me a mail or a phone call before taking your next trip.
I share your passion for Chinese ceramics as well but for collecting it I don't have enough space. However, I collected old aircraft once, but that's another story ---> you have to buy an airfield for that.
I took notice of your flaming war about worthless snuffles offered for high prices and I was very much amused. Robert Kleiner told me a couple of years ago that the market is splitting. Those bottles over 1000 USD (I rather think 5000) will continue to rise and the rest will perish, so don't buy at places like ebay or the like. Agree?

Attached a porcelain bottle I took from Robert Hall. It has five roosters ...

best

Ulrico

[Steven]

Hi Ulrich,

A wonderful bottle, painting looks like Daoguang, a bottle I love to own, Thank you for sharing.

Steven

[Fiveroosters aka clayandbrush]

Dear Ulrich,
thank you very much for the friendly message. Well, it seems that you understood the reason for my nickname here, hehe. Your bottle is really nice. Here is the link where I presented myself when I joined the forum; there you can see my five roosters bottle.
http://snuffbottle.smfforfree.com/index.php/topic,1129.0.html
I live in Piacenza, about 60 km South from Milan. If you wish, you can contact me privately by sending a personal message, so I will send you my email.
Don't miss to contact me if you will ever come to Italy.
Because you collected old aircraft (I can’t imagine how to do that, first problem, space!) may be you would like to know that in 1968 I was living in South Brazil, in a small town called Alegrete. There I did fly on a an  American aircraft from 1948, the Globe Swift GC1B. Here is a link where you can see that airplane which they still use in the local Aero club.
http://aerosantoangelo.blogspot.it/2009/03/pt-lmq-globe-swift-gc-1b-aeroclube-de.html
Kind regards
Giovanni

[Wattana]

Hi Ulrich,

Welcome to the forum! I too am a member of the ICSBS, living in Bangkok.

Since you brought up the subject, I cannot begin to comprehend how anyone collects aircraft. I find it hard enough to find space for much smaller items! What types do you (did you) collect? My grandfather learned to fly on a Maurice Farman bi-plane in 1915. An example now hangs over passengers' heads inside Hong Kong airport.

Regards,
Tom 

[OIB]

Hi Ulrich,

Welcome to the Forum !

I am from SIngapore. Trust that you would enjoy the formal and informal exchanges on this Forum.

On old aircrafts, I managed to see a good collection at the Munich Technical Museum, very educational. To collect planes, you need some desert place like the one in the US where old commercial planes were ' parked ' waiting for new customers to lease or buy !

I have good and fond memories of certain part of Switzerland I visited in the past ( for work and for leisure ).
The fresh fish I had for lunch at Interlaken was memorable ( in 1979 ). I went to Zurich in that trip when I was on my company's assignment in Mulhouse of France. The train ride back from Basel was quite an experience too.

Regards,

Inn-Bok OOI

[owly]

Hello Inn-Bok

You are right, our group had much difficulty finding suitable airfields. We had a Russian Yak52 which crashed because of drunken pilot, and a De Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth. Since this plane is now more than 75 years old, also the crew members lose more and more their airworthyness due to medical reasons and age. I am getting seventy this year.

So a change in hobby seemed to be indicated.

Did we by chance meet at the ICSBC-convention 2002 in Singapore?

regards,

Ulrich

[joearp]

Welcome Owly!  Happy to have you aboard.  I have been collecting since 2010 and am also a member of the ICSBS.  Love the rooster bottle you got from Robert Kleiner. Some of my favorite bottles are from this fine man that we all miss!  Look forward to seeing your collection and learning from you.  I have visited Zurich twice and enjoy your country very much.  Again hello from Jo in North Carolina

[owly]

Welcome Owly!  Happy to have you aboard.  I have been collecting since 2010 and am also a member of the ICSBS.  Love the rooster bottle you got from Robert Kleiner. Some of my favorite bottles are from this fine man that we all miss!  Look forward to seeing your collection and learning from you.  I have visited Zurich twice and enjoy your country very much.  Again hello from Jo in North Carolina

Dear joearp
Yes, Robert Kleiner .... a fine and real gentleman. It was always a pleasure with him. He has appraised my bottles a decade ago and forbad me to buy enameled but encouraged me to look for inside painted bottles since I would have the eye for those. And he had fair prices. I hope that Victoria continues his work.
best,  Ulrich

[Pat - 查尚杰]

 A warm welcome from Bangkok Owly.  Look forward to interacting with you.

[owly]

Dear Ulrich,
    Welcome from me as well. I am also a member of the ICSBS, since  1974 ( I started collecting in Feb.1970, just a month before my 13th birthday), after having joined the Hong Kong Society of Michael Kaynes-Klitz in 1970.
   Best Wishes,
Joey

Hello Joey!
Is it a fact that you speak yiddish? Are there different dialects in this language? I always thought that tuches was spelt toches and that it meant someting like a face. Correct?
Owly