Jing remarked the embossed G started in 2003:
http://tinyurl.com/ye3nh6

This provenance with the tael(bulk) ticket and my tuos on hand suggest
otherwise.
http://i14.tinypic.com/34eqb86.jpg

You really have to ask yourself the question who is Chinatown riped me
off for a buck tuo assuming it was fake? I'm still curious about that
'36 ge yue' meaning. If it means something like the 'next 36 months' I
think it would be possible to pickup an embossed G tuo with the year on
the bottom of the box and conclude incorrectly which year it started.
At the minimum the tael ticket and the information on the box ties
together.

Jim

MarshalN wrote:
> 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.