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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 27710, member: 25&quot;]Get a genuine piece, or pieces, even if it is broken and live with intensely for a while. Broken or damaged good stuff are called study pieces. You learn the look and the feel and even the taste intimately, so your subconcious rings a bell if something does not seem right.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the same thing as chickens trained to peck just one colour of corn, (at one time experiments were made using pigeons to guide missiles with pecks on a screen) but as we are humans we&#039;ll dress up the primitive recognition as &#039;good taste&#039; or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Books are useful but there is no substitute for handling the real thing. Museums are not a lot of use but at a decent auction you can handle and closely inspect stuff, even if you have neither the intention or means to buy it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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