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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 423900, member: 55"]$20 - $25 sounds like a reasonable estimate in an antique shop. I've often reflected that when it comes to items made for sale as souvenirs, or for the import/export market, it doesn't really matter whether a particular design was sold in hundreds of thousands of copies or only thousands of copies. The value is minimal.</p><p>And not surprisingly, there is so little collector interest that one doesn't find a lot of examples in an internet search, and the ones that will be found are often mistakenly identified.</p><p>There are no collector guides for such things, in general. And sometimes, a preconception can prevent search results, as when one searches for a particular basket among Native listings, with no results....because it is Chinese.</p><p>One often hears "I couldn't find anything like it on the internet so it must be rare and valuable." But that is often untrue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 423900, member: 55"]$20 - $25 sounds like a reasonable estimate in an antique shop. I've often reflected that when it comes to items made for sale as souvenirs, or for the import/export market, it doesn't really matter whether a particular design was sold in hundreds of thousands of copies or only thousands of copies. The value is minimal. And not surprisingly, there is so little collector interest that one doesn't find a lot of examples in an internet search, and the ones that will be found are often mistakenly identified. There are no collector guides for such things, in general. And sometimes, a preconception can prevent search results, as when one searches for a particular basket among Native listings, with no results....because it is Chinese. One often hears "I couldn't find anything like it on the internet so it must be rare and valuable." But that is often untrue.[/QUOTE]
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