We've been working long and hard getting the new and improved site together. This area is an open forum installed to encourage discussion between members. Please feel free to post and comment.

Kudos to Fred and to Dave the Webmaster for the exciting new site! Here's to more and merrier jade articles, postings, pix, and discussions.

--Best regards, Eric Hoffman

agreeing with eric...great addition to the site and hope it is utilized by all...also, enjoyed the meeting in tucson and look forfard to next years luncheon...smile...

To all FOJ's!
As a contributor of articles to the FOJ i would dearly appreciate your comments what you like or dislike about them and what topics or issues you want have reported on in the future.
thanks and best regards
Herbert Giess

herbert...open this in a new "thread"...it will be easier to respond and won't get lost in this current thread...

Are authors notified when comments are appended to their articles? Or must they check all their articles for new comments periodically?

Mr. Fred Ward and Company. Congraulations on the new website! As a novice jade collector, I look forward to the open discussion and comments. So, here goes, I would like to hear about Archer's rings (former archer). I have a few thumb rings & many jade books, but no info about Archer's rings (pictures, drawings etc). Can anybody help? Thank you. Stan Henneman

stan...go to this site... http://coas.missouri.edu/anthromuseum/online/thumbring/thumbring.html

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Dave Ward
FOJ Web Master

Thank you for having this forum, I'm jade artifacts collector from Hong Kong, walking in and out of the jade shops 3 days a week for 15 years.
I was recommended by Eric to have a look here.

Your knowledge of Chinese jade are welcome to enlighten me.

Thanks
Anita Mui

I am new comer to the world of Jade.

Thanks for initiating this knowledge base. Hats off to those initiated this and thanks to those who are contrbuting here

Dear Fred and all FoJ,
I want to say that I appreciate a lot this website and it is a great idea to have add this forum. I've added a banner linking FoJ forum to my favorite forum list on the Index page of fieldgemology.com.
I hope that it will help to develop this website, attract interested visitors and motivate people to learn more about the "stone from heaven"... This will be one of my commitments for the next few months. It was my first post here but for sure not the last one.
All the best,

Stan Henneman writes "I would like to hear about Archer's rings (former archer) ... "

Somehow I agreed to write a magazine article on Chinese archer's rings, especially jade ones. So if anyone has any other useful pointers for info I would greatly appreciate it.

--Best regards, Eric Hoffman

I have a collection of 58 Archer Rings, that I am looking to sell. They are made from a variety of materials, but mostly jade. Many have intricate carvings.These were collected by my grandfather Merril Davis. He was an avid archer.

If you know of anyone interest in this collection, please contact me.

Hi Laura,

I am interested to see if you have any more of your archer's ring collection for sale?

Thanks!
Tim

tim2417@yahoo.com

Hello All,

What a wonderful website! I appreciate all the in-depth articles. Certainly is a complex and interesting thing, this love of jade.

Danuta