Hello,
I received this pu-erh cake as a gift. I couldn't find any info about this cake yet.
What year is it? How much does it cost? Is it ripe? Is there anything special about the gold stamp?
Thanks,
Irwin
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Thanks! I also found similar cakes, it seems that there's no specific year for this one. Some are 2010, 2006, 2004, 1990s.
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Looks similar to these http://steepster.com/teas/cnnp/32851-20 ... brand-ripe http://steepster.com/teas/mandala-tea/2 ... -mark-2003 http://steepster.com/teas/cnnp/32851-20 ... brand-ripe . My guess would be the 2005 or 2003.
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show the naked picks, especially the tickets inside the wrappers and fixed on the cake.
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Pics!shah82 wrote:show the naked picks, especially the tickets inside the wrappers and fixed on the cake.
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Yup, that was my first thought tooCatfur wrote:Looks shuesque to me.
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That cake looks like a CNNP Small Yellow Mark ripe puerh cake. This is judging by the fact that it the exact same label as some of the ones on Puerhshop.com. Take a look at the CNNP Small Yellow Mark shu cakes on Puerhshop.com or other website that has an exact photo. I think they use a variety of similar labels for that brand.deadlysight wrote:Hello,
I received this pu-erh cake as a gift. I couldn't find any info about this cake yet.
What year is it? How much does it cost? Is it ripe? Is there anything special about the gold stamp?
Thanks,
Irwin
Re: Need to identify this cake
It's a CNNP (Small) Yellow Mark / Label and cooked pu erh like this one:
http://www.puerhshop.com/index.php?main ... ts_id=1765
The raw version (sheng) looks like this:
http://www.essenceoftea.co.uk/tea/puerh ... label.html
I suppose the value is 50 to 100ish US dollars at the top end, if it's real (lots of CNNP fakes out there) and if my age estimation is correct.
Age is hard to say but I'd say late 90s given the appearance of the wrapper / neifei.
http://www.puerhshop.com/index.php?main ... ts_id=1765
The raw version (sheng) looks like this:
http://www.essenceoftea.co.uk/tea/puerh ... label.html
I suppose the value is 50 to 100ish US dollars at the top end, if it's real (lots of CNNP fakes out there) and if my age estimation is correct.
Age is hard to say but I'd say late 90s given the appearance of the wrapper / neifei.
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ChengduCha wrote:It's a CNNP (Small) Yellow Mark / Label and cooked pu erh like this one:
http://www.puerhshop.com/index.php?main ... ts_id=1765
The raw version (sheng) looks like this:
http://www.essenceoftea.co.uk/tea/puerh ... label.html
I suppose the value is 50 to 100ish US dollars at the top end, if it's real (lots of CNNP fakes out there) and if my age estimation is correct.
Age is hard to say but I'd say late 90s given the appearance of the wrapper / neifei.
Thanks!
I find it odd that raw and ripe use the same wrapper and yellow mark. For CNNP, usually red is used for ripe and green for raw.
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There is both sheng and shu with all wrappers (red, green and yellow).deadlysight wrote:Thanks!
I find it odd that raw and ripe use the same wrapper and yellow mark. For CNNP, usually red is used for ripe and green for raw.
To my knowledge, CNNP is a huge government run company which lots of factories produced pu erh for, using the CNNP wrappers until some of them were privatized. I'm not sure what the labels were supposed to indicate, but there is both sheng and shu with all labels out there.
The masses of cakes with those rather generic wrappers out there and the amount of factories using them also makes it easy to release fakes, although most fraudsters are not very smart about getting things right.