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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Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 27
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63Untitled Evening Star, Issue 22086, 20 July 1935, Page 27
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