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I am one of the few Certified Appraisers in the United States who specializes in Asian antiquities, antiques and art. I am one of the few Certified Appraisers in the world who specializes in Fossil Identifications and Valuations, as I was the Curator of Paleontology at a small Museum in Minnesota. Other areas I am adept at are; Militaria, Egyptian artifacts and Western fine art. I have done authentications, verifications and valuations of such famous European and American artist's works as: Chagall, Kipniss, Kouba, Picasso and Warhol, among others. I have dealt with items such as: traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean landscape paintings, jade carvings (jadeite, nephrite and stimulants), porcelain, textiles, furniture, thanka’s, bronzes (ancient and counterfeit), Tang and Han terracotta horses (ancient and counterfeit), Japanese wood block prints (ukiyo-e, shunga, etc.), ivory carvings, and various other items, from countries as diverse as: Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, China, India, Pakistan, the Hmong Cultures, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Korea (United, North and South), Laos, Malaysia, the Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Siam/Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan, Tibet, Turkey and Vietnam. I have been able to closely examine and handled such interesting antiquities at Beijing University in China as a 160,000 year old necklace and one of the original terracotta warriors from the famous site at Xi’an as well as the more common Ming and Q’ing Dynasty items, not to mention the fossils that I had access to in their Department of Paleontology which included the privilege of being the first Westerner to examine their most recently found feathered dinosaur.
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