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Eastern Exposure: Asia Society Celebrates Asia Week at The Plaza (thepoliticker.observer)

Richard Chai, Shu Pei, Liu Wen, Phillip Lim (Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com)

_The Observer_ was about halfway through our black rice and bok choy at the
Asia Society’s Asia Week kick-off gala on Monday night when iGavel online
auctioneer **Lark Mason **plucked our dessert spoon off the table and politely
asked us to tell him about it.

Mr. Mason, a frequent appraiser on PBS’s _Antiques Roadshow,_ was enlisting us
to play along in mock version of the show.

We found the spoon while cleaning out our dead grandmother’s attic, we lied.
We have a feeling it’s important.

Mr. Mason turned the spoon slowly in his hand.

“Manufactured in China, in the 1930s, for American export. She probably
received it as a wedding gift,” he said matter-of-factly. “But I’m sure it has
a lot of _sentimental_ value.”

With a brief-but-warm hand shake (he’s a two-hander), the Asian arts and
antiques expert had demonstrated how he goes about disappointing the thousands
of Middle American treasure-hunters he encounters on the beloved program_._

But in July, Mr. Mason had the unusual privilege of informing a Vietnam
veteran in Tulsa, Okla., that he was in possession of the single most valuable
lot in the program’s ...

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