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3:09am August 5, 2014

Can anyone identify the stone in this ring?

It’s the only thing I inherited from my great-grandmother.  She was very poor and didn’t have a lot of things.  She was also a really amazing woman.  And I just found this in a jewelry box I didn’t know I had anymore.

The stone is a dark mossy green color, with lighter parts.  It’s hard to show the lighter parts on my computer screen for some reason.  The lighter parts are almost white.

Anyway with all that family is meaning to me lately, I’m of course going to be wearing this ring a lot.  My great-grandmother was born in Minnesota but raised in Sweden, then she came back to America completely on her own at the age of twelve.  I know that she worked as a maid for awhile, and that she raised seven or eight kids during the Depression and somehow made it work.  Her husband was a railroad worker, and highly eccentric (probably autistic, like some of her sons and daughters).  He lived in a shed in the backyard to get away from the noise of the kids, with his shortwave radio and a gun that he used to shoot flies off the ceiling.

Anyway, can anyone identify the stone in this ring?  It reminds me of an amethyst except it’s green – I mean because it has the white part and the green part, like amethyst has white and purple.  These pictures aren’t very good.

In any shots where there’s two rings, the ring in question is the plainer one – not much decoration around the edges, and certainly not amber.

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  1. soilrockslove reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Could be Aventurine Or maybe Green Jasper? Here are some links from Minerals.net - but just a warning - the website has...
  2. thegreenanole said: Beautiful stone! I will ask a jewelry making friend.
  3. pixieorsomething said: my immediate thought was a dark or lower grade aventurine, does it have a ‘shimmer’ effect in the stone? bloodstone would/should have teeny red flecks. if no shimmer & kind of milky/foggy in the clear-ish bits, maybe some kind of agate (moss?)
  4. honeylazors reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  5. imoldbutimstillintothat reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    It’s hard to see in the pictures, but if they remind you of amethyst, which is purple quartz, the stone in your ring...
  6. thislousytshirt said: i was gonna say serpentine but it looks like its too dark for that. i googled out of curiosity and something called dark green bloodstone has the white flecks.
  7. natalunasans said: Does green quartz exist?
  8. yilduza said: amethysts actually come in green as well as purple, but i can’t see well enough in this photo to have an idea what it is
  9. disabledfemme said: if it’s a gemstone, perhaps green moss agate? i wish i could be more help! it looks like a great ring!
  10. withasmoothroundstone posted this