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Default Old Yixing teapots on Ebay

Also, I'm pretty sure that the pu'erh he's got listed is fake. I don't
think Menghai was using the dayi wrapper in '99 and the cake itself
looks no older than an '04.

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.