Quote:
Originally posted by dbz12fan
What I am saying is that if you find one stone uncut and you find another stone that looks exactly like the other one after cutting, the uncut one would be more valuable
|
A few years ago I was attending a John Naka critique. He pulled out of his pocket a little stone with a tiny daiza. It was his smallest suiseki and he got it from Germany, if I remember right.
He talked about it and then he gave it to us to pass it around. The stone had that patina acquired from many people's hand touching and feeling it. It felt good to hold it and feel the cold, weathered edges in your palm.
I asked him how would he feel about this stone having a flat cut bottom. His answer was that in that case he would have probably lost it long time ago.
I think that tells us the way he though about cut stones.
In my case,
all being equal , I would probably pay half as much for a cut stone than for an uncut one.
Just personal preference
Attila