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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1277986, member: 2844&quot;]I only just got another alert for this thread.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The so-called Neolithic carving in the Etsy listing is 100% bogus, and not even a copy of an old one. Ever since the discovery of Hongshan jades the Chinese have been flooding the market with fakes, mostly &#039;Hongshan&#039; carvings that only have a very faint resemblance with the real ones.</p><p>Not many real Hongshan jades were made, and most of the ones excavated are in museums of course. They still look near perfect (jade!), not blobby.</p><p>The Chinese authorities are known for very harsh punishment for looters of national treasure, I believe they even risk a death penalty, so it just isn&#039;t worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have had some fake Hongshan jades on the forum, btw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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