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Saussurite - the great jade imitator

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« on: December 03, 2016, 12:58:02 am »
One of the problems here is that Chinese people will categorize based on look and hardness (difficulty to carve ). They call many things Yu (spelling ? Chinese speakers ) which fits both categories. In turn this perpetuates the notion of things being jade.
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