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Hi Chris, I feel that specializing in any area of bead collecting provides insight into the problems of analyzing other areas. When you focus on other beads, many of the same considerations apply. Your work is more beneficial to you and others than you may realize. Anyway, I could see you picking up where Susan Claire Dods of Private Collection stopped. She passed away November 25, 2013. If you had interacted in her blog, you would have found a highly appreciative audience. http://www.rossfuneralchapel.com/schedule.asp?id=1452 You have done an epic job specializing in the contemporary cloisonné bead. The problem, as I see it, is that this classic bead has been overproduced. And the Chinese have undercut the price and lowered the quality of the bead to the point of extreme redundancy. As you know, I also collect antique cloisonné beads. I find collectors who have not experienced the finest examples, think Chinese cloisonné beads all look alike. Also, the best ones need to be turned in order to complete the picture; and photography reveals only one side at a time. Nearly forty years ago I had a full page, color ad on the back of Ornament Magazine. The photography was done by Robert Liu and featured the antique openwork cloisonné dragon. I met my two best long time customers through this advertisement…The beads were sold to Cloris Leachman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloris_Leachman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SuywOociY You are not alone, Just Fred All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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