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I will answer as soon as I can, usually within a day or two. A few limitations apply. I don't know everything and as a rule I can't translate Chinese or Japanese texts or marks. My answer will be intended as a helpful pointer to send you in the right direction, if possible to tell you what you have, to say yes or now on authenticity. What I do is not an appraisal and I'd rather not suggest any values on anything except in very general terms. If your porcelain pieces are modern or maybe not even Asian, I might not be able to identify it.
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Best regards, thank you in advance for your interest and support Modern digital cameras produces picture files that are several hundred times too large to be sent via e-mail. If you enclose one or several of those, the pictures will not arrive. There are many ways to go about resizing your pictures to something that could be sent via e-mail. One of those is to download and use a free resize program that does just that: resize, without the many complications of larger programs. One of these are "softonic vso resizer". It is free and it works. You can choose to resize the complete content of a folder, just input the largest dimension of the image (800 - 1200 pixels) and the size of the image file (less than 200 kb) and that's it. The program is available in many languages. Just google for it or download it here.
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