Here is the TaoBao link. Ill try to make sense this weekend unless
someone beats me to it. ~3000Y is $375.

http://tinyurl.com/cdta2w

Jim

On Feb 28, 7:53 am, wrote:
> The packaging and brick looks too crisp to me. At best it was sold as
> a 70s meaning before Dec 31 1979 and some from Hong Kong still
> around, supposedly. The resolution isnt good enough for me to
> decipher the characters under the Star. Im sure a native speaker
> could make more of the inscription. I posted a couple of days ago The
> Strangest Factory Name where I mentioned Yun Pu. It was odd to me Pu
> by itself like here.
>
> Jim
>
> On Feb 27, 4:27 pm, Lewis Perin > wrote:
>
> > "Gyorgy Sajo" > writes:
> > > Dear Friends,
>
> > > I have learned from this estimated group, among others from Mike Petro's
> > > excellent postings, that there have not been any black/shu puerhs prior to
> > > 1973, when the Kunming Tea Factory made the first test production of black
> > > puerh.
>
> > > Therefore I got very surprised when a friend of mine arrived from China with
> > > a quite expensive ($500) brick of black/shu puerh. The seller of the brick,
> > > a native Chinese and a long-time business partner of her stated that this
> > > shu puerh was from 1970. She said that he even showed her some kind of
> > > certificate of authenticity (which she anyway could not verify as she does
> > > not know any Chinese).
>
> > > I am wondering what kind of puerh did she buy. Did she get screwed, or is it
> > > some kind of real rarity? Is it a cooked/shu puerh at all? Please take a
> > > look of these pictures, and if you have any clues about the age, type and
> > > factory of this brick, please share it with me! You can see the pictures
> > > he
>
> > >http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...u_brick_01.jpg
> > >http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...u_brick_02.jpg
>
> > > Unfortunately this is the highest resolution Photobucket allows to upload.
> > > If anyone would like to see the pictures in a higher resolution whith a
> > > readable text, let me know, and I can mail it to anyone.
>
> > The big green letters say Dian (i.e., Yunnan) Pu Cha. I'm certainly
> > no expert in authenticating supposedly old packaging for Pu'er, but I
> > was surprised to see the informality of "Pu Cha" rather than Pu'er
> > Cha". Sorry, but the smaller characters are too much of a struggle
> > for me at the moment.
>
> > /Lew
> > ---
> > Lew Perin /