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Names of unidentified IPB painters NOT yet found in Peter's DB

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« on: June 03, 2011, 11:36:44 pm »

Hi  again George

Seems   we  have  got  3  important    strings  entagled  here

1.  Names  of  artists  not  in   my  DB

     On  this  subject  I'm  pretty  sure  they  are  mostly  if  not  all  pen names.    Pen names  are typically  2  characters
     whereas   real Chinese  names  are   usually  ( bit  not always)  3  characters  :
     Family name (   always  1st)  + 2    ( or sometimes  1   or  - very rarely :3   given  names ) .

     There  are  only  about   300   Chinese   family names

     Many  of the  names  in   Pat's  list  are   Xiao  ( =  little),  Yu,  and  Mu  , which  are not  Chinese  family  names
     to the  best of  my  knowledge,  and  if  you  look in my  DB  you    will     that  all the   Xiao, Yu and  Mu -named
     artists  are   pen-names or   suspected  pen-names

     I sent Pat's  list of names  to  Li Shouxun  in Hengshui, but  he  says he  has never  heard  of them  ( though  without
     the  excact  Chinese  characters  it  probably  hard  for him to  identify  them )

2.   Dealers, websites  etc   which  sell   crap  and even fake  bottles, of  which  there's a couple  of  names  below  I note


3.    Legit   dealers,    eg  David  Osborne's  Snuff Bottle  Club   , which   is a  "pure  gold"   find

I  wonder  if  you  can separate  these  strings   under   3  new  headings   so we can follow  each  string separately  ?

Cheers  Peter

PS  : I am a  firm  believer  in networking  and  Forums, whatever  our   personal differences  and tastes.  Hope  we  got  through  our  first  birth pains   due  to my gaff   re   asking for a  deletion , for which apologies to  all . But often  after   pain comes  pleasure, and  it  seems   David's   website  may eventually  lead  us  to a lot more contacts  to  serious  IPB collectors   world-wide. 


   
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