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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« Reply #40 on: September 27, 2016, 05:24:36 am »

Dear YT,
 
    I was at that auction!
It was my first international auction, although I was attending auctions in Toronto from Ward-Price and Waddington's, as well as Gallerie68 Auctions (three local auction houses in Toronto) with my late father of blessed memory from May 1970 till we moved to Israel in late June 1973.

   Agatha Aronson was very helpful, although I don't remember almost ANYONE bidding against me! They seemed to think that as the youngest attendee, I should be allowed to buy what I wanted. Having said that, I did not go after the serious stars of the auction. My eyes were focussed on the more reasonable bottles.

    I got a plain milk glass, 18th C. Palace Workshops, for US$50! I later (late 1980s) sold it to a young collector in North Andover MA, for the same price I'd paid in 1978. He had started at 12 (in 1988), and collected till he went to university. He is now a police officer in Silicon Valley.

    Re.'Floaters', #29 and #33 in my 1987 catalogue are 'floaters'. Both have 'taotie', but are plain front and reverse. When I wrote that I'd never seen a carved 'floater', I meant carved front and reverse. Obviously, #29 & #33 are 'carved' but to the sides, and the part that is thicker (ie, where the 'taotie' are actually situated), is quite small in relation to the vast majority of the bottle's surface which is plain and hollowed so thinly.
Best,
Joey
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Joey Silver (Si Zhouyi 義周司), collecting snuff bottles since Feb.1970

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