Antique Jade Sword

yuanzhumin · 10th June 2010, 11:57 PM

The certificate is exactly saying what it is :
‘This sword is … from the xxxx dynasty and dating from xxxx’’
There is no dynasty and no datation mentioned.
Only it is said it is older than 100 years old. But here is the trick, and the certificate is exactly explaining what it means :
“ the jade coral and turquoise are over 100 years older ‘’
Nobody will dare doubt that stones are older than 100 years old. Perfectly true.
Well, authentic certificate. The thing is what to understand when reading it.
Yes, this is an authentic ‘antique’ sword, ‘antique’ to be understood as ‘old”. This sword was certainly old when it was sold (may be few years or few months old in the 1970s). It is now even older, a quarter of century after ! There is no patina, no sign of use and the artwork is quite crude, but I can now certify that this sword is from the last century !

10th June 2010, 11:57 PM	#8
yuanzhumin Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Ex-Taipei, Taiwan, now in Shanghai, China Posts: 180	The certificate is exactly saying what it is : ‘This sword is … from the xxxx dynasty and dating from xxxx’’ There is no dynasty and no datation mentioned. Only it is said it is older than 100 years old. But here is the trick, and the certificate is exactly explaining what it means : “ the jade coral and turquoise are over 100 years older ‘’ Nobody will dare doubt that stones are older than 100 years old. Perfectly true. Well, authentic certificate. The thing is what to understand when reading it. Yes, this is an authentic ‘antique’ sword, ‘antique’ to be understood as ‘old”. This sword was certainly old when it was sold (may be few years or few months old in the 1970s). It is now even older, a quarter of century after ! There is no patina, no sign of use and the artwork is quite crude, but I can now certify that this sword is from the last century !