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Ivory Jesus (8703)

The carving on this victorian Jesus is terific. Look at the thorns on his head and suffering for mankind on His face. I've wondered who would have carried a cane like this. Even though I am a big fan of Jesus, I'm not sure I would want to carry this on a daily basis. My guess would be a Catholic, because of the thorns. We will talk several times in this book about the fact that Jesus is only on the cross in Catholicism, and he always has a head of thorns. My best guess is a Priest, yet any Catholic could have.
I paid $800 for this one from a dealer from Argentina about 10 years ago, and liked it a lot as I have never been a big buyer of Ivories. One of the reasons I like to show pictures of canes to other collectors, is what I learn from them. The only person I showed it to said, all within a minute, it may not have been meant to be a cane handle. I said "What". Jesus is sitting on a cane knob, which was definitely a separate piece than Jesus. They are both antique, and the knob is original to the shaft, maybe it was done this way to make it easier to get a larger handle. What ever the case, it cast a cloud on its originality. I still like the workmanship, and the symbolism, but I don't like it as much as I did, because I don't think it will be a good investment. I have been a serious collector for 40 years, and in the early days I didn't care about the investment, I bought what I liked. I remember the kerocene lamps I bought with missing parts, and the glass pieces that were chipped. I said to myself, boy I saved a lot of money on that piece. It didn't take long before I had a room full of stuff I no longer wanted. I had a garage sale, then another and then I did an antique show. All of a sudden I was two people, an antique dealer and a collector. I made money on a lot of the things I bought, except I never made money on the things that were chipped, damaged or had parts missing. No matter how cheap I bought it, it wasn't cheap enought. I now estimate damage depreciates an item 75%, because if they have something to knock, down goes the price. I learned not to buy pieces with damage or missing parts, unless I could fix it as good as old. Both of me learned the same lesson. Now comes the problem, my claim to fame isn't that I have been in 45 countries to buy antiques, jewelry and canes, but that I have been cheated in 45 You will read this in another book, but the point is different. The field of antiques is so vast you can never know it all. Ask a lot of questions, get the age, what it is made from and the fact that it is all original in writing, which will give you recourse. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. The treasure hunt for antiques, often reveals our greed. We think its a good deal, because of what the seller said, and don't take the percausions we should. Now that I am old, the best stuff I bought, have turned out to have gone up the most.

Category: Handcarved - Folkart
Sub Category: Ivory


Listed: 2006-10-28 02:15:54







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