Iron Rust Color Spots

          Recently there has been argument about iron rust colour spots (translated in mandarin as tieh siew pan) found in Blue and White porcelain are genuine antiques. I have a good laugh because the collectors and experts only know that blue and white items are only good when iron rust colour spots are found and  whether the iron rust colour spots are manmade or appeared due to aging and this is not known to collectors and experts. When such collectors and experts are put on stage to give talks, it will be helpful to find out how well they know their homework.

A visitor from Batu Caves, Selangor searching for “Malaysia Chinese antique furniture supplier” which I can state that there is no factory for any antique items. My late father’s carpenter is now helping his wife selling noodles at Old Town Petaling Jaya after his retirement and his special tools for shaping wood was given to me. There were buyers for his tools which I want to keep. This is the same carpenter who restore and extracting the old carving parts from incomplete furniture to make complete furniture. This has been going on at Klang Road. It is very difficult to get restorers today and it will go back to the earlier years where gas and kerosene stoves were not in the market, most of the broken furniture are used as firewood for cooking.