Red Jasper Palm Stone Cedar Bloodstone - a deep green

Bloodstone - a deep green chalcedony crossed by red iron-oxide spots

Two thousand years on

Its place in science is the story worth wearing: when it was described in 1788 and named for Colonel von Prehn

30 grams of Hojari frankincense from Oman

5 it is harder than quartz and wears accordingly - the stone of rings worn every day for millennia

Red Jasper Palm Stone Cedar Bloodstone - a deep greenRed 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