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Default My Millennia tuocha provenance


Space Cowboy wrote:

> It's a picture from the Internet. Everything is the same except for
> the yue. The tuocha has lots of white bud and remaining green area on
> top fading to dark purple on the side ( I remember one of the first
> ones I tried looked much more green than this). It has the embossed G
> character. The wrapper has two lengthy columns of different Chinese
> characters down each side. You will probably know but what does the
> field "36 ge yue" indicate?
>
> Jim


I seem to remember reading about this on Sanzui that the ones with
those dates are fake -- later date.

And I don't think they started putting the embossed G on the tuo until
the last year or two.