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Hi, Tiger:
I appreciate your compliment though I do not believe I deserve them yet. However, my joy in collecting jades is not just in their ownership but rather the continued study of jade in order to seek knowledge. I first focused in learning different types of jade materials and now I try to learn more about tooling. However, it is so very difficult to learn about tool marks because the one left with modern tools and ancient tools sometimes can be very similar and therefore very confusing.
It disappoints me a lot when a few jade collectors would call many jade items posted in this forum modern without presenting any types of evidences, proof or explanations but based just on their personal feelings. Sometimes it is so apparent a jade piece cannot be achieved with modern tooling because its cuts and carving were resulted from archaic jade carving skills such as string cut or solid stone drill (in drilling holes) but yet they would call it a modern copy. Many times they also ignored the fact that unique and high quality jade (or non-jade) materials were simply too rare or too expensive in using to make cheap fake jades. Any time when one encounters a jade piece (or non-jade) that was made of quality and unique material, or with that is similar to those of archaic jades, and such a piece was carved exquisitely, they should never discard it as a modern fake without closely examining and studying it or we would simply miss a lot of good pieces.
Bill
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