A red earthenware jar, believed to be of the Ming period, has been sold at Shanghai for sixpence. Coolies working on a new canal to connect the Husi River with the sea unearthed the jar. and not knowing the probable value of their find were glad to accept the sixpence offered by an unknown purchaser who was passing when the jar was found.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 248, 17 July 1935, Page 14
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63Untitled Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 248, 17 July 1935, Page 14
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