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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 9618771, member: 4654&quot;]I agree, there is a lot of painted wooden stuff coming out of India made to look old. As a collector of Anglo Indian antiques (export market) I know very little of their domestic antique market or what prices they make in India but the global market is really only interested in the very fine work they produced for rich Westerners, these items were very expensive at the time, they were made and produced by very few, highly skilled craftsmen, taking months to create. It seems a lot of inexperienced people both in India and around the world are mixing up old crude works for the high end stuff that fetches high prices. The truth is India doesn&#039;t really have any of their fine works outside of big houses and museums and if they were for sale and&nbsp; unrecognized a lot of Indians would know exactly what they were. I have looked on ebay in India for treasures for 14 years and found only 2, both were badly damaged and very over priced. The UK, Europe and the US were the only people wealthy enough to afford them at the time they were produced and as such these are the countries who have them in large numbers now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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