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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 300174, member: 2844&quot;]Totally agree, but I&#039;m glad you said it.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie66" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I so hate to disappoint people.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to post-CITES ivory, I can only say, buy imitation netsuke if you like them, but please don&#039;t buy ivory ones, even if the seller says they are pre 1947. There are cute wooden ones with inlaid eyes coming out of China and Indonesia nowadays. As fake as fake can be, but very cute.</p><p>As Richard said, you have to know what you are buying. That goes for anything of value, as we know from this forum.</p><p>I made a study of netsuke in the 1970s and 80s, but never bought any after the early 80s. The ones I did buy, pre-internet, were all from old collections, people I knew from the Dutch antiques and collectors circles. I was the youngest Asian antiques dealer in the Netherlands at the time, so they all came to size me up anyway.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> That novelty factor led to some great contacts in a short period of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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