Anyway, no arrowhead hunting and no rock pile hunting - just gardening and the occasional unexpected discovery in the dirt.
(After a bit of searching) I guess they are called "Disc Pendants":
Update: Looking carefully, there appears to be a capital 'O' etched inside the material.
Update: I have a piece of real jade (an ashtray) and it is about the same hardness.
3 comments :
Peter -
You might try a hardness test. Jadeite has a hardness of 6.5 to 7, and Nephrite (true Oriental jade) has a hardness of 6 to 6.5 so neither probably won't scratch glass. Green quartz (chrysoprase) has a hardness of 7, so it will.
Or perhaps it is just a lime-flavored life-saver!
Curt
Thanks Curt. Sure looks like a life saver! In fact, I can abrade it with a jackknife blade. About the same hardness as some jade I had.
The real clincher appears to be a capital letter 'O' etched inside it. I'll show a picture.
In the end, I see my jade ashtray has some inclusions that are visually similar to the 'O' in this disk; leading me to wonder if the 'O' could be natural. So I am going to go with thinking the disk is real jade.
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