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Description
Clear glass jar with metal lid filled with small oval-shaped corked bottles. Corked bottles are clear glass with chinese labels. Inside the bottles contain peppercorn-sized silver balls. Lables read in Chinese that they are from "Cheng Jing medicine manufacturer". The lable in Chinese characters is renshen dan -- meaning ginseng pellets. Glass jar also includes cotton padding for the bottom of the jar and a piece of folded brown paper with red Chinese characters. Sticker on outside of jar reads: "$1.00 Bottle Chosen Nijn Tan".
Object ID
Tokuda.204