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A recent find in an Australian antiques shop

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« on: July 20, 2017, 03:50:15 pm »

Dear Frank,
you are absolutely right, semantic is VERY important. I apologize for my self-learned English, which can me lead toward a not correct expression.
In fact, by saying “do not ask if the bottle is 10 or 20 years old because it is a non-sense”, my real meaning was that it is useless to ask that because it makes no difference if the bottle is 10 or 30 years old, at least under my point of view.
But it makes a BIG difference if the bottle is 100 years old, because late Qing and Republic are well defined historical periods, with their own artistic personality. I totally agree with you on this, and in fact bottles of those periods can be of very good quality and highly collectable.
Now, about mushrooms: what a surprise! Are you Italian? I live in Piacenza, which is not far from you as you know.
It will be great to meet sometime!
Kind regards
Giovanni
PS: my hunting area for the boletus is the Val Trebbia which you may know.
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