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Mineral checklist for snuff bottles

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Joey Silver / Si Zhouyi 義周司
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« on: August 11, 2017, 07:38:14 am »
Dear Tom,

    Do you know when the earliest known bottles of Chloromelanite are from? Late 18th C.? 19th C.?
Because I really like Rube's bottle from his grandmother, which she'd thought was Malachite, and wonder if it could be as early as late 18th C., and that it is just the hard crystalline polished surface that makes us want to date it later.
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Joey
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