| Original Message: Re: New eBay Categorization for Collectible Beads |
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I would suggest that those of you who had been "helping" Ebay in deciding on these time frames consult dictionaries on the words modern and contemporary. You just must be joking to consider anything made at the turn of the 19th to 20th century (for instance also special styles like Art Nouveau and Art Deco) as modern. In the art busines anything over 50 years is considered antique - just think about Persian carpets. A modern carpet was made yesterday! And certainly not around the 1920s!!! This would be a very valuable rare antique piece. In my opinion this applies also to beads: a modern bead is a bead made in the last years (Cattelan, Seymour beads) and is in fact the same as contemporary.
The difference between the two words is that with contemporary art, bead, etc. the maker should still be alive, i.e. a contemporary of you and me. Concise Oxford Dictionary: 1)modern: of present and recent times; in current fashion not antiquated 2)contemporary: belonging to the same time as oneself other words for modern: advanced, fashionable, trendy, recent, contemporary In the light of all this what are Kiffas????? By this/your classification they are modern beads - this just can only be a JOKE.
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