Featured Green Carved Stone Bear

Failing to find any lovely vintage jewellery in the charity shops ,I ventured to the bric-a-brac shelves and found this little monstrosity.
What am I looking at? (no insults please)
Old or new?
Jade/Jadeite/Nephrite/Serpentine? It’s definitely stone, it’s cold and heavy.
No marks anywhere I can see.
I have no idea and I can’t find anything this bad online but maybe everyone else is just too embarrassed to show their badly carved bears!
Thanks for looking

 

I think hes cute ! My 1st thought was maybe Alaskan jade

 

He is cute. The up close of his face makes him look mad.

 

He is monstruously charming!
I think it is serpentine (try a scratch test under the base with a steel needle, nephrite is normally harder than serpentine) and the eyes may be peridots.

 

You are all very kind

I’ll try a scratch test tomorrow.

Could be, it does look similar.

 

Or possibly BC jade; there is no guarantee that Chinese craftpersons have not been involved though.

 

I don't think he's Chinese, but the stone... could be jade. Could be dyed whatsit made in China and out to fool me.

 

Would a little acetone on a cotton bud tell me?

 

I think he's adorable, too!!!

 

Unknown, at least to me.

 

I bet that's BC jade, I saw a a lot of it out there. It's mined there, then shipped over to China to be carved, because that's where the expertise is. Then it gets shipped back. The shops are very open about that. I think older.

 

Thanks Bear!

 

as in? 70s?

 

Literally tons of nephrite (BC jade) here. Some of our souvenirs are carved from BC jade, so it's used quite widely.

 

With the gemstone eyes and that texture, I'm wondering if he isn't pre WW2.

 

I think it's adorable!

 

So do I, it's nicely done.

 

Feeling slightly less embarrassed about scooping it up now!
(Unless of course you are all just being kind )

 

I can’t find anything like it online