Experts Needed

There is a visitor from La Jolla, California searching for “oriental arts and antiques penang malaysia” which is very easy after all visitors know Penang Malaysia and the next thing to do is to look for dealers, freelance dealers or shops that sells only antiques. The best way is to keep the contacts with dealers, freelance dealers or shops that sell only antiques to update what they have in stock and this is the way it should work out or stay there for sometime to source what you want for yourself. A quote from Julius Ceasar “I came, I saw, I conquered” and this quote applies to “I came, I saw, I bought”.

 At present there are not many dealers who want to stock many items because of 1) fakes or reproduction. 2) holding business capital up for too long and difficult to sell. Example there are so many reproduction of nyonya ware and to my surprise that an from a prominent family is said to be Bandung copy and made it easier to throw it away than to sell it and being accused of selling fakes.

The bitterness and sufferings dealing in antiques was that collectors do not want to learn what is genuine of fakes or reproduction and even condition like money back guaranteed is not workable and was said to be illegal and against public policy in civilian law. (extracted from Civil Action 5934 0f 1978 in the Magistrate Court, Kuala Lumpur) making sufferings are mine and comforts are yours.

The people who can really authenticate antiques are 1) William Young Willetts, 2)Peter Clague Malaysia, 3) Mr. Mohammad,  an Indonesian  staying in Malaysia, 4) Mr. Che Mokhtar Bin Che Ali Malaysia and former Magistrate, 5) Mr. Lu Yaw, Singapore, 6) Roxanna Brown, Thailand, 7) Mr. Peter Lam, Hong Kong,  8) Ku Tong Wong, Ipoh, Malaysia and Professor Peacock, Australia and these are the experts who will  help so that everybody will understand what antiques are.

Always remember that all artefacts are imitations unless and until proven genuine and I notice that the older post in this blog which is informative and is not on display.