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My second jet bottle!

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« on: May 26, 2017, 12:55:37 am »
Quote from: cshapiro on May 26, 2017, 12:42:48 am

Jet is formed from pieces of wood that did not go through the peat process and so were not coalified, but underwent decomposition and retained their cellular structure.

So it wouldn't be surprising to find major differences in every single bottle - because we can't know the original source of the material and the Chinese may very well have used many sources over the years.


I have a very dull jet bottle, which was for many years classified as wood.
Yet all jet supposedly comes from just one species of tree.

I have no idea about the base mark. It looks like it was added later. 
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