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My friend send me a package with some beads of the necklace I showed before in this thread.
The hardness of the beads on the scale of Mohs is between 5 and 7( a light scratch in glass and no scratch with a steel knive) I believe the stone is a kind of chalcedone, notice the shell like flakes on the blue bead (jasper is also chalcedone I think). The holes in the beads look pecked from two sides instead of drilled. The biggest (broken) bead on the pictures is 23mm in diam. The smallest 7mm and they look to have a good age and were used well.
Thank you for suggesting Jasper, it was a good starting point for searching.
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