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Please help with translation on this little suita koppa.

Thanks

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With that much text I'm half-expecting it to start with "Dear diary..."
 
Good God that's some awful handwriting. 
Can only make out some of it.
奥殿 Okudo (unsual way of reading but correct)
Next 1 or 2 characters...can not make out.
巣板蓮華 Suita Renge
卵色 Tamagoiro Egg Color
巣板 Suita. (stone where there are holes from gas release?)
Maybe someone who knows Natural Stones can make all this out.
 
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Good God that's some awful handwriting. 
Can only make out some of it.
奥殿 Okudono
板蓮 Banren?? Board Lotus
卵色 Tamagoiro Egg Color
単板 Tanban?Stand alone board
Maybe someone who knows Natural Stones can make all this out.

Thanks @KenHash . That actually gives me quite a bit to work with. It was my first jnat and it has sentimental value so just trying to learn a little more about it.
 
Good God that's some awful handwriting. 
Can only make out some of it.
奥殿 Okudono
板蓮 Banren?? Board Lotus
卵色 Tamagoiro Egg Color
単板 Tanban?Stand alone board
Maybe someone who knows Natural Stones can make all this out.
I don't know anything about natural stones, but between your kanji and what I read in other posts on the forum, I wonder if the person here applied for a license from the Redundancy Department of Redundancy and decided to write "Okudo no Suita Renge Tamagoiro Suita"?
 
OK, corrected by previous above after quick study of Natural Stones terminolgy. Many thanks Qapla.
The only ??? I have left are the one or two characters after 奥殿.
I am not 100% convinced if it is the hiragana の. Maybe it is.
The bottom writing seems to be a date, although I can only make out 年四月 year April.
 
My best guess is:
奥殿 Okudo
本巣板 Hon Suita
蓮華 Renge (pattern of the suita)
卵色 Tamago (color of the suita)
巣板 Suita
卅一年 Year 31
四月 April

If Year 31, and since Heisei ended with year 30, that could be Showa year 31 (1956) or Meiji year 31 (1898).
The Taisho period before Showa only lasted 14 years I think.
 
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