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Mystery Of The Tjipetir Blocks
Mystery Of The Tjipetir Blocks
Written By Mister Gu on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 | 11:27 AM
For the past few years, 100-year-old rubber-like blocks inscribed with the word “Tjipetir” have been mysteriously washing up on beaches in the UK and northern Europe without explanation. Tjipetir is the name of an early 20th century rubber plantation in Indonesia and the tablets are made from the sap of the gutta-percha tree, a tropical tree native to Asia and northern Australia. It was used in