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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 636218, member: 2844&quot;]It looks suspiciously like serpentine to me. It seems to have age.</p><p>Serpentine can be different colours, including green and red.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t seem very useful as a chop (seal stamp), it could be a talisman.</p><p>The slight staining, which does not go inside the characters, could have occured another way. If it was used as a stamp the inside of the characters would be bright red, not the occasional stain on the surface.</p><p>Using red pigment during a ritual is not unusual in Asia. It could also have been in an environment with iron oxide. And sometimes a stone is artificially stained with iron oxide to make it look like russet jade.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you haven&#039;t bought it yet, be sure you pay for a piece of serpentine, not a piece of jade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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