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A large smooth natural rounded mawsitsit boulder is not easily available namely because they cannot be exported from its source country Burma.Stones weighing over 2 kilos are scrutinized and permission to export is next to impossible.
In Mandalay, a beautiful city and province in the northern parts of Burma near the famous temples of Pagan, there are a few jade factories to supply rough jade and an occassional lot of mawsitsit. However, these dealers are more interested in selling you commercial quantities of rough materials rather than a boulder or two. Dealers deal and collectors collect. Dealers are interested to split the rough in half and see what they can produce from the raw material. Collectors are looking for the rare and the unusual and of course beauty and value.
This particular piece is the biggest piece we have purchased. It weighs 2700 grams. There haven't been that many pieces we have seen of this type. The ones you see are smaller and have already been broken down in size. This piece has a nice "feel"and is a manageable size for display in a showcase, book end or even for your desk top!. The color is not too dark or too light. The pattern and "streams" of green against the black skin are nice and as a whole makes for a very attractive specimen. |