| Original Message: Another view: By Marie Cohn (Not Me !) |
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From Marie Cohn:
1. I'm sure there's still the "loose beads" category for anyone dissatisfied with this new stuff..
2. The "categories" don't matter anyway. You get the same results using the "other metaphysical" category that's good for making up phoney folklore stories for your beads..
3. People search for "trade beads" and this is how most sellers of "our" stuff list their material, with "trade beads" in the title. The category ought to be "trade beads" and then the clowns could kill almost every auction listed because hardly anything can be proven to be "traded".
4. All beads are "collectible", it just depends what you like to collect. The Liu book is about beads Liu thinks are collectible. Would you like to see my collection of vintage Mardi Gras plastic throwing beads?
5. The new categories cut right through the most common and important bead/historical periods. 1900 is right in the middle of the Venetian heyday and 1000 is right in the middle of Medieval times. The "Islamic" period is a meaningless concept put forth and used by thoughtless uneducated fools and 1000 falls right in the middle of that phoney period anyway. Beads do not have religious origins or political origins, they come from places. "Ancient" in everyone's "book" means the Classical period ending around the 5th century with the decline of Rome.
6. Their definition of "antique" is from US Customs who have such a definition for customs purposes, i.e., taxation. Otherwise, see the dictionary for meanings of "antique".
7. The new category ought to be "trade beads", but "trade beads" is actually one of the dumbest and most irrelevant campfire terms ever invented for beads and, the fact is, our authorities and associated toadies don't even have a sensible definition for "trade beads" anyway.
8. If they want to make useful bead categories, they would start with origins and materials and worry less about time periods. Most misrepresentation involves people representing new beads from country A as old beads from country B or lies about materials
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