Red Jasper Palm Stone Sandalwood Under ultraviolet light

Under ultraviolet light

The two-piece construction is the distinguishing detail

Palo santo - not a stone but aromatic heartwood

with the same quiet waxy polish

matte to softly metallic

Red Jasper Palm Stone Sandalwood Under ultraviolet lightRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Solid and earthy, with the heft of fired clay. From India, a palm stone. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from older words