As long time collectors of Asian art, we have purchased many authentic and truly remarkable Chinese antiques on eBay. You can too. But fair warning - you need to really understand how this fraud riddled...
So you are looking at some of the beautiful jade, turquoise, silver, and carved bone items from China and Tibet, many of them "antique"? ...... Here are some things to consider: 1. If they don’t tell you the...
Thanks for dropping by ....... When we first started on eBay in 2003, there were usually 200 to 300 listed Dzi Beads, of which 95% were all machine mass manufactured copies or imitations. Today , a simple...
Many times Tibet stamps including multiples and complete sheets are offered on ebay (and conventional auction houses) with the comment "as is “, "not sure if genuine “ "in unissued colors " etc..Usually, all...
A while back I purchased a “gem” on eBay from a Far East seller located in Thailand (this also applies to Laos,Tibet, China etc…) The stone is called the eye of Buddha, the sellers claim it came from a river....
Many times Tibet covers are offered which look too nice to be genuine. Well, they can be philatelic covers with genuine stamps and genuine postmarks but in most cases they are just plain forgeries with fake...
The 4 Trangka, blue color stamp from the 1914 issue of Tibet is the rarest and most valuable stamp of Tibet.GENERAL RULE:4 Trangka, The small rays from the ring in every corner of the stamp point inwards 8...
Many times Tibetan stamps are offered as reprints. Please note that are, with one exception, NO official reprints of Tibetan stamps exisits . All stamps offered as reprints are fake.The mentioned exception are...
THE POSTAL HISTORY OF TIBET, by A.C. Waterfall is the most famous book on the stamps and postal History of Tibet.2 Editions were made:1965, 1st edition, 174 pages, Hard-cover, dust jacked.1981, 2nd Edition,...
Many times there are Tibet sheets offered which contains 24 stamps in 2 blocks of 12 stamps. Please note that there were no Tibet stamps printed in sheets of 24 and such sheets are private reprints done by the...
