1. Kammakan is a Thai word and used in amulet circle means a judge. Yes, for an amulet judge we call him Kammakan. Kammakans in an amulet competition fair are mostly composed of amulet dealers who involve in the AMULET BUSINESS plus with new-to-medium experienced collectors, veteran collectors and the GOOD-PAY buyers. So, by its structure not all Kammakans are QUALIFIED.

Real qualified Kammakans have NOT many--they are deservedly respected by their knowledge and justice. Meanwhile MANY are unqualified and merely are Kammakans by their name, a sarcastical word calling them KAMMAKERN. The word KERN = over, exceedingly, not appropriate, so the meaning of the KAMMAKERN here should be a JUTE not a JUDGE. Alas, these JUTEs are theoretical collectors, they know amulets that have pix printed in amulet books only--that's the childish collectors. But Thai practical amuletology world is so vast that the bigger part of them never have been printed but known to QUALIFIED Kammakans and ADVANCED collectors. 

What would happen if a group of JUTEs join a competition fair? Do they have real knowledge on the amulets? Any guarantee that the JUTEs will not paradoxically judge the amulets before them--the real are fake while the fakes are real? And any guarantee that the MAJORITY OF TYRANNY environment due to their unanimous lacking of knowledge on SPECIFIC amulets will not happen?

2. In some society, collectors ADORE a paper called CERTIFICATE much more than the AMULET itself. This is the weak point that has caused many FAKE pieces with FAKE certificates exported for transaction. Yes, many pieces in the market are good with authentic certificates but certainly still many are both fake items and fake certificates. Collectors in that society really walk on a tightrope, it's entirely based on the FATE because most local dealers are not profound experts who could differentiate the complicated fake pieces.

3. Amulet collecting can be divided into 3 levels: the primary, the middle and the advance. The primary cling to a paper of certificate, the middle are less leaning to such the paper, and the advance they RETREAT and get NO INVOLVE in any competition including give no value to a paper-- they are real SI FU who purely use EYES only to verify an amulet before them with a long-year experience criteria specifying on both PHIM and TEXTURE.

4. As mentioned above, there are 2 kinds of judge--the qualified and unqualified. Please ask them that LP Puak of Wat King Kaew has created how many Phims and types of amulets, how many periods of his Phra Phong creation, what are the characteristics of each period amulets of Phra Phong and how they look like, and how they were made, etc. Ridiculously, some KAMMAKERNs could not even differentiate LP Puak B.E. 2496 and B.E.2485 amulets. 

5. By nature of some qualified writers, they occupy knowledges both theoretically and practically, otherwise they could not TEACH readers on the how-to techniques. But the more they write, the more they are hated by some dealers because their revelations obstruct their business. Some WEB FORUM where the WEB HAWK involving secret interest given by some local dealers has become a stage of revenge to a scavenger writer. Please ask the interest-involved WEB HAWK that how much he was paid.