Peridot Palm Stone Jasper Baltic amber has traveled trade

Baltic amber has traveled trade routes since the Stone Age

the carver following the stone’s own color zoning so that no two pieces carry the same distribution of tone

The setting is solid

The heart form is a long-standing shape in lapidary work

Obsidian was prized by Indigenous cultures across Mesoamerica and the American Southwest for its ability to fracture to a remarkably sharp edge

Peridot Palm Stone Jasper Baltic amber has traveled tradeThe green of deep mantle rock, held in the palmperidot is one of the few gems that forms below the crust. Peridot is the gem variety of olivine, a magnesium iron silicate ((Mg,Fe)2SiO4) that crystallizes in the upper mantle and reaches the surface through volcanic activity or in xenoliths carried by basaltic magma. Its vivid yellow green color is an intrinsic property of the iron in its crystal structurethe color is built into the mineral's chemistry