THE TALE OF A CHINESE EXPORT SILVER HIDDEN GEM 中國出口銀隱藏寶石的那些事兒 Being a […]
THE SILVER SHANGHAI JAZZ AGE 銀色上海爵士樂年代. 1920’s Shanghai was New York without the speakeasies! It was a city ready, ripe and totally made for the Jazz Age and it did it with style. Known as the “Paris of Asia,” Shanghai boasted fine restaurants – it also had casinos, greyhound and horse racing tracks, scores of […]
“BOSTON MERCHANTS AND THE HONGS OF CANTON” by Adrien von Ferscht June/July Issue of New England Antique Journal An historic article acknowledging the historic link between Canton, Massachusetts Bay and the birth of Chinese Export Silver Most of the China Trade merchants came from either Britain or North America; many of the British […]
CHINESE CLOUDS HAVE ALWAYS HAD SILVER LININGS! 中國的雲總是有銀襯裡! Historically, silver has always had a greater value within China than anywhere else in the world. Today, as with most things Chinese, we find history repeating itself. In the 16th century silver had a value double in China to that of Europe, the very same phenomenon […]