Congratulations

Congratulation to this visitor: from Sydney, Nova Scotia searching for “image of imari plate dragon like blue plumes”.  I have not come across any imari items with dragon and this is something special in japanese ceramic. Chinese ceramics has dragons because it depicts the emperors.

 One visitor from kuala lumpur searching “to tell a real nyonya pocelaine from a fake”. This search was answered in my earlier blog.

 Next visitor: from Melaka searching for “sell antiques for cash in malaysia” which is not a difficult way to answer. 1) What are the items that are for sale? 2) Are such wares known to collectors? 3) Are the prices affordable by collectors? I find that there are not many good collectors in Malaysia when I ask simple questions like 1) “why do you want to collect old porcelain items and where road side you can find banner selling antique porcelain which such items are so easy to find?” and the next paragraph shows that they want to look for antique shops. 2) Why must Yi Hsing teapot leak in order to be good? Local collectors can only collect but not knowing that teapot should leak to be good and also the antiques collected by them are good or bad. I find it difficult to sell good antiques in Malaysia because collectors want their own theory and not based on any sense.

These visitors: 1) from Ipoh, Perak searching for “penang antique shop”. 2) Kajang, Selangor searching for “kajang antique shop”.  3) Singapore searching for “antique shop penang”. 4) Seria, Brunei searching for “peranakan antique shop singapore”.  All shops are open for businesses and it is advisable to look for their advertisement.

Visitors from 1) Singapore searching for “where to buy peranakan ware in penang”. 2) San Jose, California searching for “nyonya antique dealer. 3) Singapore searching for “shop selling nyonya plates in Singapore”. It is so difficult to find antique shops or dealer because there are no good antiques for them to sell. Visitors has to wait for vendors to open their shops once they accumulate stock to sell and it is of no use to open a shop today and close down tomorrow due to stock shortage.

In the 80’s there were many good collectors accusing my father of selling fakes or copies and this was mentioned in my earlier blog. A Chinese expert who visited Malaysia and confirmed my father’s customer’s items are good. Later my father asked a friend to write to him in Chinese and this old fox asked one of his student to come and demanded a letter of authority to sell our antiques and when we asked him that in case our customer walk in and wanted to buy something, do we have the freedom to deal direct with this customer or do we have to call you to attend to this customers’ need. When his request was turn down, he and others started to spread by telling that what we are selling are copies or fakes. One customer who is a boss of a company who visits China frequently was told my father at a earlier stage to pay this elderly expert a visit and he was told that the items that he bought from my father are fakes or copies and instead of returning or disposing off the items, he prefer to leave it at his business place and tell people that he bought the piece and got cheated.

This same China antique expert with a friend wanted to start an antique exhibition using 2,500 pieces of our antiques and I demanded for cash and due to that failure my father was hated and I was the UNLUCKY  PERSON who help in this business for selling fakes or copies.

 After my father’s death, I have been confronting experts on stage because it will make collectors more knowledgeable. One part time dealer met me at a Sunday flea market and he greeted me with bad intention when I say that I am looking for genuine items and he replied by saying that collectors wanted fakes and my reply was “that is their bloody business” and this reply was thrown at in front of his friends who are collectors as well.

Experts who are not knowledgeable collectors are not respecting or worth talking to. “Knowledgeable collectors” means anyone who is able to confirm what they said. Example a Ming dynasty item and how to know and come to conclusion that it is of the Ming Dynasty and not a fake or copy is important?

 Many crooks who want this business without knowledge and putting out capital want to high profit from it has made it an international failure and try to rob my father’s business by running him down and now I am openly running down this business by “rumour buy, rumour sell”.

 The answer to searching for antique shop and nyonya ware is that the shops and dealers do not have stocks for display and sell at their shops. Collectors are searching for antique shops and antiques that you wanted and can carry on searching to see his chance in a lifetime to come. If you are lucky you will get what you wanted and if not after collectors kick the bucket will also not get it. Opportunity never waits for you.

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE A HAPPY SEARCHING BEFORE KICKING THE BUCKET.