You kept holding that knife so I kept holding my breath! 😳 I was scared you’d nick a print or your hand and bleed on a print 😅 I love your videos ❤ thank you!
@ I am relieved you are more coordinated than myself. I am such a klutz that if I were holding your knife, your gallery would look like some of your prints from all the damage I’d accidentally do to myself 😁
Brilliant video! thanks so much for sharing your collection with us! I'm more of a casual shin-hanga collector but your videos are slowly motivating me to get into older prints!
Richard, Very much liked this unboxing video. Again, thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and passion for ukiyo-e prints. The value component is always interesting and informative. Also always appreciate the overarching importance of the artistic achievement, techniques and historic/cultural contexts. Thanks again -
I appreciate the pricing but I like everything else just as much. It is a pleasure to Watch your videos with such enthusiasm on your part and on the viewers part.
An argument against prices: adding prices might make your content seem out of date in 5 years, and some collectors too might see it as uncouth to talk of price Thanks for the vid 👍
@@MieGallery I think this worked but always a fine line between dealing with print investors who buy popular prints and expect a ROI, and print collectors who prefer the rare and unusual and don't care so much for money ie financial return from prints isn't their goal.
Your unboxings are always a treat, but I’m afraid I’m not of one mind in regard to price information… On the one hand it will inevitably lead to market price increases, as I know you are honest, and will always try be credible and integritous in this regard, and so the print values will be realistically within the current market ranges, and as in all markets, prices generally go nowhere but up… And yet I have done so well at random auctions here in the US, that I hate to see it spoiled by things as specific and succinctly temporaneous as “useful knowledge,” and market value… On the third hand, I admit that an increase in appreciation of anything “Asian” in modern America is unquestionably a good thing, although I will miss my smug satisfaction at nabbing a great Hiroshige print for very little money, while people with way more of that than myself will spend thousands on a “signed” Picasso tourist plate, just because it was made while the artist was still alive, and still actively scamming people! I guess I get more from your historical, conditional and anecdotal insights, and could probably do without the current market valuations, but if you were to publish a “price guide” every two or three years, I would totally buy them! I have no knowledge of any such guides being at all currently extant… does Mie Gallery? Whatever course you should determine to follow, I just want more of them! Here, let me hold your saki, while you continue your always very excellent endeavors! - Glenn Jones
Great comments and thanks for "holding my sake"! (big fan). Auctions are always interesting because there could be a "feeding frenzy" of buyers that jack up the prices beyond what they should be, or there could be a dearth of buyers and you can get amazing deals. For most of my pricing I look at the other Ukiyo-e galleries out there. I also look at historical sale prices when I can find them. I definitely don't look at ebay or Charish or Etsy because they are very off-base. You should check out Mutual Art, they have historical purchase prices for all types of artists and work. There is a subscription fee though. Thanks again for the comments and your support!
Love the pricing add-on commentary.
marvels! congratulations! a little fortune well spent...hihihi.....
As a collector of woodblock prints appreciated the pricing information.
Loved the video as usual!
i liked the pricing details as well, always fun to watch
It's useful having an idea of the cost of prints being shown. Another great video.
Thanks for the support!
You kept holding that knife so I kept holding my breath! 😳 I was scared you’d nick a print or your hand and bleed on a print 😅 I love your videos ❤ thank you!
@@atarayael no need to worry I’ve been using that knife for 40 years.
@ I am relieved you are more coordinated than myself. I am such a klutz that if I were holding your knife, your gallery would look like some of your prints from all the damage I’d accidentally do to myself 😁
Brilliant video! thanks so much for sharing your collection with us!
I'm more of a casual shin-hanga collector but your videos are slowly motivating me to get into older prints!
The older prints from the Edo and Meji eras is where my heart is, although I do appreciate the Shin-hanga artists.
Richard,
Very much liked this unboxing video. Again, thank you for sharing your extensive knowledge and passion for ukiyo-e prints. The value component is always interesting and informative. Also always appreciate the overarching importance of the artistic achievement, techniques and historic/cultural contexts. Thanks again -
@@stephenmeder5855 thanks!
I appreciate the pricing but I like everything else just as much. It is a pleasure to Watch your videos with such enthusiasm on your part and on the viewers part.
Yay! I'm glad my enthusiasm comes across. Thanks for the comment!
Can someone direct me to a video on telling original from re-print?
Found it! ua-cam.com/video/3vnLRRGSV78/v-deo.html this talks about it a bit - along with other stuff.
@MieGallery thank you so much!!!
An argument against prices: adding prices might make your content seem out of date in 5 years, and some collectors too might see it as uncouth to talk of price
Thanks for the vid 👍
Hi - good points, if I were to redo this video I'd put a more detailed caveat at the beginning and end on this. For the next one I will.
@@MieGallery I think this worked but always a fine line between dealing with print investors who buy popular prints and expect a ROI, and print collectors who prefer the rare and unusual and don't care so much for money ie financial return from prints isn't their goal.
Your unboxings are always a treat, but I’m afraid I’m not of one mind in regard to price information…
On the one hand it will inevitably lead to market price increases, as I know you are honest, and will always try be credible and integritous in this regard, and so the print values will be realistically within the current market ranges, and as in all markets, prices generally go nowhere but up…
And yet I have done so well at random auctions here in the US, that I hate to see it spoiled by things as specific and succinctly temporaneous as “useful knowledge,” and market value…
On the third hand, I admit that an increase in appreciation of anything “Asian” in modern America is unquestionably a good thing, although I will miss my smug satisfaction at nabbing a great Hiroshige print for very little money, while people with way more of that than myself will spend thousands on a “signed” Picasso tourist plate, just because it was made while the artist was still alive, and still actively scamming people!
I guess I get more from your historical, conditional and anecdotal insights, and could probably do without the current market valuations, but if you were to publish a “price guide” every two or three years, I would totally buy them! I have no knowledge of any such guides being at all currently extant… does Mie Gallery?
Whatever course you should determine to follow, I just want more of them!
Here, let me hold your saki, while you continue your always very excellent endeavors!
- Glenn Jones
Great comments and thanks for "holding my sake"! (big fan). Auctions are always interesting because there could be a "feeding frenzy" of buyers that jack up the prices beyond what they should be, or there could be a dearth of buyers and you can get amazing deals. For most of my pricing I look at the other Ukiyo-e galleries out there. I also look at historical sale prices when I can find them. I definitely don't look at ebay or Charish or Etsy because they are very off-base. You should check out Mutual Art, they have historical purchase prices for all types of artists and work. There is a subscription fee though. Thanks again for the comments and your support!
Pricing info is a definite plus but possibly the least important information you provide
Good to know. Thanks!