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Subject:Chinese silver pendant translation
Posted By: Selby Cook Wed, Aug 01, 2018 IP: 2602:306:8b13:f340:a Any help in translating the message on my 19th century Chinese silver pendant/locket would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. 
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Subject:Chinese silver pendant translation
Posted By: I.Nagy Wed, Aug 01, 2018 長命百歳 - Long-lived one hundred years old
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Subject:Chinese silver pendant translation
Posted By: Selby Cook Thu, Aug 02, 2018 Many thanks for quick response. You've been very helpful now and in the past. Best of luck.
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Subject:Re: Chinese silver pendant translation
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Aug 04, 2018 FYI, "one hundred years of age" (Baisui - 百歳) was considered to be the proper toast at traditional Chinese birthday celebrations for most people, because hardly anyone ever lived so long in those days. However, if you were the emperor, your subjects celebrated your birthday with ever more wishful cheers of "ten thousand years of age" (wan sui - 萬歲). Of course some of them tried to outdo that toast by consuming immortality potions containing cinnabar, a poisonous ore of mercury, ending in the predictable result even before the advent of Las Vegas oddsmakers.
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- Selby Cook - Aug 01, 2018 (10:05 AM) 