What's New? (Aug, 2003)
We got the most treasured artist inksticks for you that's still exist in China. Don't belive any of the 19th centure old inksticks on EBay. They are fake. We have many of these too for you learn from. But we tell you they are not for real use. The 30 - 45 years old inksticks that we just got shipped to USA are made during and before the Cultural Revolution. From 1950's to 1970's. As you can see, most of them have Mao, Zengdong and other propaganda slogans engraved. The two pre-cultural revolution ones have totally different character. They are scholarly and romantic. In tradition with Chinese culture. While the ones made during cultural revolution, they are political. But many of these calligraphy engraved is very valuable. Not just it's style of calligraphy, but also as evidence of that era.
We bought the whole inventory out from the old maker Hui SHe Old Hu Kaiwen inkstick factory. We are offering here as artist inksticks, not as rare collector's items. Hope you will appreciate them and use them. Special care need to be taken with these inksticks. Please have the plastic wrapper on the inkstick at all time. Never expose them under extreamly dry and sun. You can leave them under room conditon with the plastic wrapper on. Show to people with the wrapper on. As these are over 30 years old, they have been very well kept. But sudden dry air can easily crack the inlstick. If you use them, after grinding, immediately wipe dry the water and put in plastic wrapper. It's really old inkstick, hairline cracks on the inkstick is perfectly normal. Great care has been put into these inksticks over the 30 -40 years. Just the labor of love is worth much more than what we sell them here! All of inkticks were made for artists use. Some are Pure Oil Soot inksticks, make from same material as Jing Buyi inkstick, they are great for painting.. Some are Premium Pine soot inksticks, same material as psonyan, they are great for calligraphy.

What's New? (Mar, 2002)
We just got another wonderful inkstick for you. 20 year old Premium Qin Mo. It will save you so much time grinding your ink. Click on the image to read the description, it also gives you a tip on how to keep a good inkstick and how to use a good inkstick, so they do not leave dry and crack. For people who are used to the Chinese inkstick, this is one of the treasure. By now a lot of people has already tried the 20 year old Japanese inkstick. The main difference is how much glue is used in the making of the inksticks. Chinese inksticks use more glue, so take a little bit more time to grind the ink, but the grinded ink is very oily and clear. While Japanese inkstick use less glue, very fast to grind out ink, but when grinded too long, the ink besomes thick. Some people are not used to it.
Still the 20 year old Premium Huang Shan Pine Soot Black Inkstick at
$1.10 each is a great bargain! Because of it's age and Japanese receipe, it's so easy and fast to make ink, after you tried it, you will not want to use ready made ink for your daily practice any more, it's just as fast as you pour out the ink! Want a free sample? Just send $3.95 and a self addressed Envelope to us! Of course for the skeptical, we shipped the Hui She Old Hu, Kaiwen Brand Tie Zhaiong and Li, Tinggui liquid ink too! You will have all of this available. To supplement for our limited offering of color inksticks, we also shipped brand name colors in the tube! Will tell you more tomorrow!

Make your own hand grind bottled ink with this20 Year Old Japanese Brand, Chinese Pricepremium Pine Inksitck!

To save you on buying colors, we imported these Exotic brown color Tong Tree Fruit Oil Soot inkstick, as good as the Zhusha inkstick, enjoy premium color you can make!

For the folks who do not have time to grind inkPremium Artist Tie Zhaiong and Li, Tinggui Bottled InkSure is a Treat and a delight if you have been using stinky student bottled ink!

For anyone who want to learn Chinese calligraphy to improve their basic Sumi-e strokes, this 5 Piece set: 20 Yr Old Inkstick, 32 Pages Practice Book, 6 Inch Round Insktone w Cover, Bottled Ink, Specially Made Large Orchid Bamboo Brushis really very precious, practice book is reserved for you!

It's been a while since cheap inksticks and inkstones came to EBay. This portal really produced a lot of opportunities for power sellerrs. But very sad to tell you, after the artists found us, we received a lot of letter complaining about their inksticks are soot, not ink! Why? You need to continue reading!