Message #48659

[cshapiro]

Rube, the bottle arrived with a loose fitting top with a spoon (the horror) and the cork in the bottom (which appeared to have been there for a while)! I immediately removed both but the bottle was obviously not well cared for before it came in my possession. I can tell that cork knocking around in there did the bottle no favors!

Tom - seeing your bottles I think you already have had some amazing luck!!

Joey, I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning hoping to hear from Steven, but it occurs to me that he is in an unenviable position - it would be one thing to verify a bottle with a different theme, but verifying one with a repeated theme is truly sticking ones neck out I imagine because it would set a precedent.  Having you consider it original is quite enough for me. It is beyond a doubt the closest I will ever come to one!

This is really interesting information:

And I know Zhou Leyuan repeated subjects, at least once. This is because I have seen two almost identical copies of my Rooster and chicks subject - mine from the White Wings collection, and another belonging to the Chester Beatty Library collection.