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Cameron Lewis Cameron Lewis is offline
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Default Old Yixing teapots on Ebay

If you look at one pot after another you quickly notice that the
griminess (which is despicably bad) is very uniform and black. I
suspect that these are (badly) antiqued. Even if they were real, I
can't think of any way they'd get that black without totally neglecting
hygiene. Would you really want to brew tea in those? Nasty.

Cameron


Bill Wolfe wrote:
> Does anyone have experience buying teapots from the ebay store
> http://stores.ebay.com/5000friend ?
> They have a large selection of yixing listed as pre-1960 at what look
> like reasonable prices, even allowing for ~$30 shipping. They also
> seem to have decent feedback and several repeat customers. Everything
> I read about buying Yixing--old or new--screams caveat emptor, but some
> of those pots look pretty neat to me.