A Wrong Place Hunter

One visitor from Bandar, Selangor searching for “antique shop vintage wrist watch malaysia”. In the early 80’s, one freelance dealer sold a lot of watches to a Hongkie and in the 90’s, one Japanese working in Malaysia, staying in Brickfields bought old watches and his old watches was sent to my friend’s shop for repair. These watches are all taken out of Malaysia and will not come back. My late father deals in watches but at that time there were not many customers made him to give up watches trade and having to service the watches and by the time customer looking for it the mechanism jammed. In my younger days, I kept a few which deemed it special to me brands like Roskopf, Election and Lancaster are found in my collections and to find antique shop vintage wrist watch Malaysia is difficult.

The next visitor from Indonesia searching for famous “bali antique collector” which I do not know about bali antiques thus making values not accessable.

The third visitor from Indonesia from Indonesia searching for “peranakan  antiq shop Indonesia” which I do not know much about peranakan items or whether there are any peranakan settlements in Indonesia because with the settlements, you will be able to find the deposits of antiq.

The fourth visitor from Singapore searching for “reproduction nyonya plate in penang”. What makes reproduction nyonya plate in Penang so important is not known to me. This year “2015” a shop in Petaling Jaya has few sizes of nyonya ware kamcheng and also in my blog, the Star newspaper had shown the availability of nyonya ware in Kuala Lumpur  and whether genuine or not is none of my business and I did my part to answer when people ask.  The best place to get reproduction nyonya ware is Bandung and Jing dezhen. The word “reproduction “ shows  the best and well known place to buy and also not only the importance can be found in Penang.

One visitor from Puchong Selangor searching” how to detect fake antique chinese porcelain”. To detect fake or genuine is easy for me and the only way for you is to have the time with the genuine and the fake together. You will not understand when I am giving short lecture with bare hands but will only confuse you further. I brought some items to a food court and the coffee shop that I mentioned to share my knowledge with my friends and had to stay back because the lecture was longer and it is rude and unfriendly to cut people off for those who want to know. A museum expert in the 20’s which I quoted that it need authenticated specimen to assist in studies. You can visit Asian Art Museum at the Universiti Malaya because this museum has authenticated specimen which is good for education and not many collectors know about this place.

A good collector is one able to bring out his pieces to show that the items in their collection are fit to go into the museum and not ones who goes on guess work.