Thread: New stones, please id

The bottom one looks like some slate stones I've seen - very fine grained. I think they come from Scotland. The top one is very pretty and I'm impressed with the dovetail mounting. Someone loved that stone very much to go to all that trouble. Hard to say what it is though do to the light color green. I have seen Eschers which have that color but they're hard to find as lots of folks used to oil the eschers and that darkens them. Yours doesn't look oiled. Can you put up a picture with it en slurry? The slurry is a really good indicator of pedigree as it is what mineralogists call the "streak" or the true color of the stone.

Here are some slurry photos.