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Let's Rock => Identifications of Materials => Topic started by: Phishisgroovin on July 10, 2022, 08:55:42 AM
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Kent street fair going on, a vendor has this for sale and doesnt know what the stone is.
I just noticed a FLAW in the piece too lol! :LOLOL:
Too bad they use plastic beads and spacers though. otherwise this is a nice piece. i would have used jasper beads and silver or something spacers.
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I think that is fake jasper. I see a lot of similar on ebay, advertised as jasper but with colors not often seen in jasper. The sellers on ebay from India sell it but it is man made. Hence the plastic beads, they go well with fake stones. I take it by Kent you don't mean Kent, CT?
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Gaspeite has those colors but no one would sell gaspeite as jasper since it is levels above in cost and not common.
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I think that is fake jasper. I see a lot of similar on ebay, advertised as jasper but with colors not often seen in jasper. The sellers on ebay from India sell it but it is man made. Hence the plastic beads, they go well with fake stones. I take it by Kent you don't mean Kent, CT?
I am in Kent Washington near Seattle.
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Thanks Phish. You're about 3,000 miles from here, out there in great rock country. Kent, CT is about 70 miles away and an early (1700s) iron mining area. All that fake jasper I see on the bay is finished "stones" never rough. I saw some blue with similar tan veins advertised as jasper and when I e-mailed the seller was told it was synthetic. I'm sure what you have shown is the same.