THIS LISTING IS ONLY FOR A PAIR OF EARRINGS!
Trillions 1” x 1⅛” -
These earrings have two faces and both of them are worth looking at. The front presents two sister Gary Green jasper triangles, each measuring 1” x 1⅛”, their surfaces moving through warm cream, taupe, and soft olive-grey in the sweeping horizontal bands that make this stone one of the most quietly sophisticated materials in the lapidary world. A full border of hand-applied granulation balls runs the entire perimeter of each piece small, even, and entirely handmade framing the stone with the kind of detail that rewards the close look.
Turn them over and the conversation continues. The back of each earring is a hand-cut matte brushed silver plate in the same triangular form, with a triangular window cut through the center that reveals the stone beneath and stamped into the silver, the maker’s mark. This is silverwork that takes the back as seriously as the front, the kind of attention that separates a piece of jewelry from a piece of craft. Sterling shepherd hooks complete the earrings with easy natural movement. At 1⅛” they wear with presence and stay with you.
Details:
Stone: Gary Green · Origin: Oregon · Matrix: Senic · Metal: Custom Sterling Silver · Earring Setting: 1” x 1⅛” · One of a Kind with Makers Mark
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Gary Green Jasper
Gary Green jasper arrives looking like a landscape painting deep, saturated greens layered with black dendritic branching, cream veining, and occasional flashes of ochre or rust, all moving across the stone in patterns that suggest moss on basalt, or aerial views of river deltas pushing into dark water. It is one of the most visually complex jaspers in the world, and one of the least commonly known outside of serious lapidary circles.
Despite the name, Gary Green is not technically a jasper in the strict mineralogical sense it is a fossilized stromatolite, a layered structure created by ancient cyanobacteria colonies that built mat-like formations in shallow prehistoric seas. What you are looking at in the stone is microbial life, compressed and mineralized over hundreds of millions of years into something dense, polishable, and startlingly beautiful. The green comes primarily from celadonite and other iron-bearing clay minerals locked into the matrix during fossilization. The black branching patterns are manganese oxide dendrites minerals that crept through the stone along fracture lines long after the original material had already turned to rock.
Gary Green is found in only one known location in the world: a remote deposit in Baker County, southeastern Oregon. The deposit is limited and privately held, and quality material with rich color saturation, strong dendritic patterning, and clean polish is genuinely difficult to source. It is the kind of material that serious collectors track down and hold onto.
At 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale, it takes a glassy polish and holds fine detail well in metalwork. Set in sterling silver, the deep greens and black dendrites become something close to wearable wilderness ancient, specific, and unlike anything else on the market.
