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servania they were asking a lot of questions in a fb ID pots group about their “factory pots”. Not all of the feedback made it over to their sales pitches afterwards… Yeh the sales front is fanciful but the conversations are a lot more grounded lots of “I’m not really sure but here’s the consensus ...

So, new vendor has popped up recently. MikaZuki TeaHouse. They seems to focus on F1 and other pots exported to japan, bought by them second hand, then marketed to a western audience. I found out about them on Instagram but they seem to have presence elsewhere as well. Anywho, I've been pretty convin...

Yeah so pretty much what I thought, two typos in one four character word is pretty bad. 黑金钢沙 what they originally wrote would be beach sand made by the HeiJin steel company. 黑金刚沙 would be a type of black aquarium sand And 黑金刚砂 is what they were going for a dubious modern off shoot of 黑泥. Unknown cla...

Oh man.. that makes things even worse for vendor trustworthiness. I found in my own research 黑金刚泥 as a newer clay type for black teapots likely a manganese oxide situation like HeiNi 黑泥 The link you provided has it as 黑金钢 however, which is a steel processing company and a manufacturer of various hom...

There are an alarming amount of tea first vendors that have very low cost "Yixing" teapots listed under the clay type Hei JinGang. Of course never with the actual Chinese characters and searching it just pulls up listings from every tea shop you've ever heard of. Namely Yunnan Sourcing and Verdant T...

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Fri Apr 21, 2023 12:47 am

servania hello! I believe we just met elsewhere as well

Haha I’ve read your posts on here for a good while checking the sign up process every couple of months or so to eventually join in. A lot of my formative knowledge is from these forums, label eras, youzis clay documentation work etc

Hello there! I'm Servania pretty long standing seal translator and cataloguer on various outlets. Reddit (owner of r/YixingSeals) , facebook, my own website and various published resources. I've for the longest tried to make an account here but the sites signup was bugged for the longest :lol: Anywh...