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Topic starter 02/05/2025 3:59 pm  

Here’s another contest to liven the forum up, It’s been slow lately.

What was the date of your first Asian Art purchase? What and where? Oldest date takes the prize.

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Topic starter 02/05/2025 4:04 pm  

My entry,

A Guangxu dragon and Phoenix bowl, Grant and California Streets, San Francisco, Chinatown, ding ding, a cable car passing by. Date of May 1970 (55 years). Beat that if you can.

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02/05/2025 4:38 pm  

@gfhandel Ah, the good old days when there were more Asian antique stores around! You definitely have me beat by many decades.

Do you still have the bowl?

Mine was kind of recent, around 2016, also in an Asian antique store in San Francisco, this one on Sutter St near Union Square. (I haven't been around lately to see if they survived COVID.) It's a white Chinese saucer with iron red (or orange?) decoration of bats and auspicious characters, mark and period Guangxu (?).


   
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Topic starter 02/05/2025 5:05 pm  

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Sold that bowl at my shop in San Mateo in mid 1980’s. Think I remember the antique shop you mentioned on Sutter Street near Union Square, Bought a few Song bowls there.

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02/05/2025 5:17 pm  

@gfhandel I can't beat that date but I can tie that date, the Kent State shooting occurred May 4, 1970, while we were driving through Ohio on the way to my husband's first duty station in Maryland. We purchased a Chinese brass candlestick at an antique shop located in Maryland and we ended up renting a small house across the state line in Lancaster County, Pa., so I know it was May, 1970 after May 4. That naval base is closed now and it was not near the ocean, it was for "A" school fresh out of training at Great Lakes. We were going up to rent the furnished place in Lancaster County, we had spent the previous night at a motel in the Laurel Mountains in Pa., so on May 5,  you had to find a place to live when you first arrived at the base and we never lived on base the entire 4 years he spent in the Navy. Maybe everyone is on Spring break 🤔 

 


   
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Topic starter 02/05/2025 5:47 pm  

@sharonp We are tied for the date of purchase then. Speaking of Navy “A” school, I attended Navy Yeoman “A” school in San Diego back in Oct 1964 and ended up in Taipei for 2 years when graduating.

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02/05/2025 6:17 pm  

I can't beat that date as I would have only been 10...😝

My first purchase was a large lidded nephrite white censer in 1983.

Oddly I still have it. 

Mark

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02/05/2025 11:29 pm  

@imperialfinegems Very 😍,  you young whippersnappers.


   
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02/05/2025 11:37 pm  

@gfhandel The Navy was good, lots of fine people. 🙂


   
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Topic starter 03/05/2025 9:30 am  

@sharonp 

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03/05/2025 10:04 am  

@gfhandel Congratulations on your fine career, George! You have every reason to be proud.

My aunt's husband was a navy captain during Viet Nam. He had a lot of amazing stories. 

The recruitment poster looks like pressed metal and original. There aren't many of those around today not in museums.

Regards,

Steve


   
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Topic starter 03/05/2025 11:28 am  

@steve My “fine career” consisted of 2 years helping a PRC takeover of Taiwan and then another 40 years at BofA and Visa in San Francisco.

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03/05/2025 11:33 am  

@gfhandel Ah, got it. My mistake. Sorry to be so presumptuous. 

Civilians like me are unsure how to address the often amazing service of veterans. (On one hand we're told to thank them for their service, then we're told that's patronizing, which I can understand completely.)

Anyway, sorry to comment on something I didn't really know anything about and that's none of my business. 

Warm regards,

Steve


   
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Topic starter 03/05/2025 1:05 pm  

Made a typo on my earlier post. Should have been “I spent 2 years helping to PREVENT a PRC takeover of Taiwan.”

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03/05/2025 1:38 pm  

I can't compete with 1970 either! 😊 I would guess mine was around 1993 when I discovered the thrill of rummaging in charity shops. I don't have any of those things anymore - for good reason ! 🤣  

However, I do remember falling in love with my grandmother's cloisonné jar before I was 8. It is mine now, not worth huge amounts, but I intend keeping it in the family.


   
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