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March 28, 2024, 07:41:08 am
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Please help me identify this material - is this the so-called calcified jade?

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: May 28, 2016, 09:57:08 am »

Dear Tom,

     In July, 1974 I bought a beautiful calcined Jade (Chicken bone Jade?) snuff bottle from Sidney Borsook, a collector from Sandton, a Johannesburg suburb, after I had viewed his collection.

     It had very fine age/heat cracks and was the colour of aged bone (a pale off-white to even paler cream colour).

     I have never seen calcined jade with these large fissures, but I have seen fossilised mammoth tooth with them.

   Having said that, maybe this is the result of modern attempts to copy 'genuine' calcined jade, as you suggested.

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Shabbat Shalom,
Joey
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