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Pendant 1⅝” x 1” - Matching earrings are available for purchase on the earrings page.
This stone looks like the earth after something gave way. The teardrop Dead Ringer jasper cabochon measures 1⅝” x 1” its pale sage and cream ground fractured by bold burgundy and deep red veining that moves across the surface in jagged, deliberate lines. Not random. Not gentle. The pattern reads like a map of something that broke open long ago and stayed that way each dark line a record of pressure, of time, of the moment the stone decided what it was going to be.
Set in oxidized .925 sterling silver with a full hand-twisted rope border and matching rope bail, the teardrop form gives the stone an elegant downward movement the kind of pendant that settles at the collarbone and stays there, noticed by everyone who gets close enough to see what it actually is. This is not a stone for the timid. It is for the person who understands that the most interesting things are always the ones that show their history.
Details:
Stone: Dead Ringer · Origin: California · Matrix: Red and Blue · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Pendant Setting: 1⅝” x 1” Teardrop · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
Made in Taos by a Taosena.
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Dead Ringer Jasper Pendant
Dead Ringer jasper is a rare picture jasper found in the high desert of the American West, prized by collectors and silversmiths for its dramatic veining and painterly quality. Like all picture jaspers it forms through the slow infiltration of silica-rich fluids into existing rock, carrying iron oxides and other minerals that settle into patterns as the stone hardens over millions of years.
What distinguishes Dead Ringer jasper is the boldness of its color contrast the pale, almost porcelain ground interrupted by veins of deep red, burgundy, and rust that cut through the stone with startling clarity. The sage and olive tones in this particular stone reflect chlorite and other mineral inclusions present during formation adding a cool, atmospheric quality to the warm red veining that makes the composition feel less like geology and more like weather. Each cabochon is entirely unique. This one tells its story in fractures.
