Featured The only antique&collectable I regularly buy in my country...

I believe these qualify for antique as many of them are millions years old! And we have a well aged tradition of collecting them. Also,I feel relieved buying them, as the fakes are so easily recognizable.

Do you know what these are or do you have similar stuff where you are?

 

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haha thank you for the tag tho I know what these are, just want you to have some guess or discussion!

 

Hahaha, gotcha. I'm pulling the tag

 

Tumbled pieces of agate & jasper, perhaps Sardinian. That or Roman glass.

 

Do the terms 'tumbled' an' 'river rock' have equivalency? Could those beautiful stones have been found in or near a stream or river, naturally smoothed by their down-slope journey? A few of those appear to be possibly volcanic glass...to my unskilled eye.

 

Tumbling is doing artificially, in a rotating drum with water & abrasive, what water can do over time.

 

heh...the gal beat u to it !!...

nice rocks though..

 

I see mostly jasper and agate chunks. Good for putting in a bowl and looking pretty.

 

Yes...understood, Bronwen. Thanks!

 

Yes correct, they are mostly agates, but they are untreated as only natural ones fetch good price ( though one of mine is polished, a mistake, but still pretty!). And they are all found in a specific area in China where we used to have volcano.

You are absolutely correct natually washed stones would have a specific texture on their surface, to help you not to be ripped off by dishonest dealers!

This is how they look like once out of water, so they have to be in a bowl or plate, underwater.

 

@Any Jewelry have you seen these before?

 

That's an unusual turn of phrase...if you used to have a volcano, you still do. Perhaps your meaning is that you have a dormant volcano...no longer active, or historically so?

 

Yeah haha, should be, as never heard of anything new from there!

 

I found this ceramic ashtray full of polished stones at our Gift House (free stuff) at the transfer station. It makes a pretty decorative item, but certainly not worth much. Anyone can polish stones but I wouldn't call them antique!

 

I used to live in Australia, and spent a lot of time in Scotland, so yes, I have seen agate and jasper river pebbles before. Also from volcanic regions, after all they have to start somewhere.

 

My stones are roughly 40 pounds each in average. The most expensive one was the pale one in the middle, bought at 70 pounds. And the most prized and rarest ones in China could go to million. It is actually hard to tell tho, if someone living in 200 hundred years ago have collected and adored a specific one, then passed it down by generations, that one would seem more acceptable to be called an antique!

 

wow

 

That is a beauty, almost like it glows.

 

That one looks like it formed as a geode, then had some erosion to a side, revealing the structure within.