Hi Oleg,

The factory that produced the plum flower cakes is the probably same as the
one that produced the pumpkin pu'er that Jim has, the Ji Xing factory, or
lucky brand factory.

The one that you showed would be either the recent one, or it might be done
by another factory - the tablet usually has the plum flower imprint but not
the 'tea' character on the other side - that being said I'm familiar with
the tablet pre-2001, having tasted some, but not after, so your picture may
be one in the recent years or from another factory.

As for the squares, it is made almost by every other factory in Kunming -
figuratively.

Danny

"Oleg" > wrote in message
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Dear all,

First I would like to thank rec.food.drink.tea members, especially pu
erh related, for posting here since this group was one of the
inspirations for my interest in pu erh! And now it's a great source of
new pu erh related knowledge.

I would appreciate your help in indentifing two cooked pu erhs I have.
I was looking for some info about them for quite a long time but to no
effect.

First one is 100g Beeng Cha, so called "plum emdossed cake"

http://ph.icmp.lviv.ua/~vorobyov/BeengCha.jpg

which seems to be the same as the one at ITC website

http://www.imperialtea.com/AB1002000...Category_ID=23

However ITC dosen't indicate the factory and year of production One
can read ???????? on the wrapper which again just
almost useless, just "good quality pu erh cake with plum flower" I
was told that my cake is 8 years old which I tend to believe but can't
be sure. My cake dosen't have any wrapper.

The same for the second one which is 50g Fang Cha

http://ph.icmp.lviv.ua/~vorobyov/FangCha.jpg

Again I was told that it is one year old, but no factory information.
Goes in polyethlene wrapper

Thank you so much though I understand that there might be not enough
information to tell anything.