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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 102137, member: 54&quot;]Higher quality compared to what?&nbsp; I call it kitsch, quite unlike the silver, cloisonné, bronze, jade etc. that top craftsmen in China sold to merchants with wealthy clientele before WW2.&nbsp; You might want to think about who in China would have been making items like this and who the consumers for it would have been in the early 19th C.&nbsp; I can&#039;t come up with a market flow of products of that type during the timeframe.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s just a gap in my limited knowledge and someone else here can enlighten us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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