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Re: Really great jade pieces or fakes?
Posted By: Larry
Posted Date: Jan 01, 2008 (12:31 AM)
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Dear Bill, those are fakes made from acid treated serpentine, these especially appear crystalline and frosted on the surface but is not how old jade are surpose to look like. I hope you have got that book Translucent world. The white inclusion in old jades are subsurface and do not appear like surface crystaline unless it is chicken bone jade which takes a more than a million years to form, but will still not look like etch serpentine or may be nepherite. Regards, Larry

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