You are welcome to view this collection of All items shown are in my personal
collection Last updated 4 Sept. 2008. 
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 | Blue and white teapot baskets, ginger jars. |
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 | Tea basket, small liquor, jugs. Sewing baskets. |
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 | Teapots, basket teapots, tea cans and boxes. Also shown are three cups and two bowls with The Attributes of the Eight Immortals pattern. |
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 | Teapots, basket teapots, teapot lids, tea. |
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 | Blue and white basket teapots, other teapots, tea caddy. |
 | Sewing baskets, labeled liquor bottles, small spouted jar. |
 | Medicine and unguent bottles, jewelry box with lock. Many of these medicines were mistakenly called opium bottles by bottle diggers. Several of these came from Keremeos Chinatown. |
 | Nice liquor bottle, mahjong sets and pieces, White Dove lottery sheets, fan tan spreading-out covers, fan tan buttons, fan tan spreading-out rods. Gaming pieces. |
 | Three wide-mouthed jars, three globular jars, a musical instrument, figurine. The largese globular jar is 14" tall. |
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 | Ink bottles, ink stones, brushes, letters, ink, books. |
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 | Ink bottles, stamps, type from San, Francisco newspaper. The emerald green ink near the front was dug in abr>Chinese dig in Merritt, BC. |
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 | Old Mah Jong sets, counters bamboo tallies, bone tallies narrow cards. |
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 | Mahjong sets, bone counters, winds,dice. |
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 | This coin sword points at the museum door, fending off thieves. It dates from the mid 1800s. |
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 | Focusing on the trade beads. The short red beads, called pipestem beads, came to San Francisco as long pipes used as ballast in the tea ships. The cobalt blue and translucent red and blue beads were imported from China for sale to traders such as the HBC for the fur trade. All were Peking glass. |
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 | Medicine storage boxes, scales, tools,soy sauce pot. |
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 | Paper covered tea boxes. |
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 | Cookers or serving dishes, bowls, ceramic and brass ladles, large Four Seasons plate. Bean curd sealers, rice wine bottles, sqare and round soy jugs, coins and beads. Immegration certificates. |
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 | Laundry items, ring neck beers, knives. |
 | Pastry molds, beers,cleavers wonton ladles. |
 | Abacus,large scale, tea cans and boxes, some still full of the original tea. The scale came from an old Chinese store in Red Deer, Alberta. |
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 | Wine pourers, wine cups, soy sauce pourers, plates. |
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 | Plates, cups, bowls, spoons. |
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 | Plates, bowls, restaurant ware. |
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 | Tobacco smoking pipes, gold scales, matches, snuff bottle, wide mouthed jar. |
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 | Tray with opium items, Books on opium. |
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 | Gold/opium scales, opium relics, opium lamps. |
 | Shelf of Chinese pots. Gingers, liquor bottles, spouted jars, vegetable pots. |
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 | Shelf of larger vegetable pots, spouted jars. |
 | This large brass gong still has some beeswax in the nose cone! It reputedly came from the Vernon, BC temple. It measures over 22" in diameter. |
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 | Two barrels or tuns. |
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 | Large pigskin covered chest, large laundry basket. |