posted on May 30, 2004 07:16:53 PM new
Hi Everyone! Look at the interesting find I picked up yesterday! I think it's Quan Yin! I think this is made of plastic? See! It comes apart too! (Great for simple minds like mind) Can anyone tell me how old it MIGHT be? Is this Quan Yin? Can someone translate the writing on the side of the carriage?
Thanks so much for your help
Paloma
oops, can't spell
[ edited by paloma91 on May 30, 2004 07:18 PM ]
posted on May 30, 2004 07:25:51 PM new
THe woman is a geisha,always tell the diff between a japanese woman and a chinese woman from their hairstyle,also she is wearing a kimono.
This is weird,how does she manage not to fall out of that carriage??
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posted on May 30, 2004 07:33:58 PM new
Not Quan yin. a geisha. Interesting. She doesn't fall out because she's stuck on it. Here it is apart I wonder what the writing is?
posted on May 31, 2004 05:15:01 AM new
the kansi character can be translated to mean-stable,i guess in this case-sitting tight!!
is this resin made to look like ivory carving??if so,then there must be an ivory carving like that somewhere worth a lot of money??
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posted on May 31, 2004 09:07:50 AM new
stopwhining, by "kansi", do you mean the writing on the side of the carriage? I know very little about this stuff.
It doesn't look like resin but that plastic kind of stuff I remember seeing at my great aunt's house when I was little. Does this make sense? It's very light, no seams etc
posted on May 31, 2004 01:31:43 PM new
kansi or kanji means HANS character,which is really chinese character,The japanese use chinese character in their writing,but the interpretation and usage are different.
I am referring to that character on the back of the carriage panel.
This design looks old,if it is light,then it could be celluloid,you know back then they make a lot of celluloid toys before plastic comes in.
May be someone can shed more light on celluloid .
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posted on May 31, 2004 02:53:43 PM new
CELLULOID - Camphor Smell & a quick puff of smoke just as soon as the needle comes in contact with the item.(Proven) Caution - Celluloid is highly flammable. If your not careful your needle can go right through it before you can blink an eye. Another test I use when time permits, is to put the button in question in a tiny/small jar with a screw on lid. Leave it there for several days, maybe a week or two. Open it and quickly take a sniff. If it smells like camphor, it's Celluloid. (Proven)
Cheryl
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posted on May 31, 2004 06:09:48 PM new
That's IT! Celluloid! That's the stuff I remember from my great aunt's house and this thing is made of the same stuff. Very light and very stiff. I have a bakelite bedroom set that someone took and "tested" to prove it WAS bakelite. It is and it passed but now all pieces have a nice BLACK dot on the underside near the MFG'ers mark. I really don't want to do that to this item. I think I'll use the "jar" method (grin) I have some big glass jars with screw top lids I can use for my "test"
Is this a unique hard to find thing or are these pretty much out there by the dozens?
posted on May 31, 2004 06:34:55 PM new
these old japanese stuff is not that easy to find,i know there are people who collect celluloid toys,in fact a japanese american guy who owns 5000 of them ,wrote a book and now become the curator of a celluloid toy musuem in japan.
search ebay and see if there is any celluloid toys
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