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A true black and white bottle

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« on: March 01, 2016, 04:40:06 pm »

Dear Charll,
thank you very much, after your comment I did search for black agate and found the following page, where we can see exactly this stone, coming from China:
http://www.stonecontact.com/products-168933/black-agate-stone
Here below a picture from that page.
The bottle is very well hollowed, much than was I expected when I saw it. It does not float but it is close to that. I did a rough measure and I believe that the walls has a thickness of about 3 mm. I think that it is very dangerous to go below that thickness because of the crystals, which are of course not compact due to the crystalline structure. But I too am convinced that it is not old, because I do not see any wear or scratches on it.
Kind regards
Giovanni


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