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Old teapots from Ebay - experiences
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Excellent, thank you for posting. I've been considering buying something from this vendor myself. SURELY those pots can't be Qing Dynasty, though, no matter how pleasant they are? :)
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
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Superb, I look forward to hearing your experiences with the next pot! How did you clean the ones in the photos? It looks like a good job.
Regarding the vintage, I'm more wondering just based on the price alone. No matter how sexy that pot is, how likely is it that you're holding a piece of Chinese Qing history for the low price of $50? Maybe I'm too skeptical, but, given the rarity of even early-PRC pottery courtesy of decades of revolution (inter- and intra-national), the prospect of a Qing piece going for $50 suuuurely has to be too good to be true. :)
Of course, if I'm wrong, then this is the deal of the month - and I'd be happy to be wrong. :)
Toodlepip,
Hobbes
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Actually, I believe, that it maybe can be true. I live in Slovakia (it explains my english grammar :-) - and a short history. Slovakia lies in the center of Europe. After World War Two it was attached to the communist empire of Russia (or Soviet Union, as it was called), and so right until 1989 I live in socialism. Then, after 1989 there was a Velvet revolution, the communism was overthrown and the people established democracy. Why do I write this ? Because by my opinion, the same process I lived in goes in china right now. The are big changes there, much more possibilities and people try to live a modern lifeform. They throw away anything old and live by western lifestyle. The same process went here, after 1989 you could buy things people had at home at awesome prices (I bought for example a latin book from year
1774 - Theologia Moralis, first print for USD 15). So if there is a chance to buy a good priced vintage teapot, it is probably now. On the other hand - if it is a fake, it is still a great fake, much much better than the "original yixings" I can buy here, so it is worth the money...- Vote on answer
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