The second one was the one with the eroded shell, which usually had two layers for the shell. Though the external layer of shell tended to fall off easier, there would be another layer of shell inside.
The colours were mostly white for the first layer and yellow or red for the second layer, some of them could be white as well. Most of the jades that were cut from the eroded shell were of ideal transparency, so it became the favourite of wealthy gamblers.
Some people might wonder if everyone fancied jades with a favorable degree of transparency, why were they only favored by rich people? It was because the price of a raw eroded-shell stone was incredibly expensive. No one could afford it without making a huge dent in their wealth.
As the stone-cutter shaved off the shell and divi
