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August 21, 2006: Rare Ceramics Books in the Philippines
"I was so disinterested in ceramics that I sold two copies of the rare book "Oriental Ceramics" discovered in the Philippines by Leandro and Cecila Locsin. When I got hold of a third and fourth copy in 1999 and actually leafed through them, I realized very late that any study of Philippine prehistory inevitably touched on ceramics. These were so important that the pioneering pre-historian H. Otley Beyer even wrote an article on "The
Philippines in the Porcelain Age" (roughly the 9th to the 16th centuries)."
