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dassauerkraut | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @1f737851 The source piece of jade for those had to have been MASSIVE.
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istván | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @dassauerkraut I've been to the jade auctions. They will wheel out a rock that's like 2x2x3 feet. They start auctioning. Then someone does the first cut of a window and it goes up again. The same rock can change hands a dozen times on the same day with those window cuts before a factory finally hauls it off.

It... gets pretty fucking crazy.