Hello,
I know very little about the beads below except that they come from a South-America collection, and I become more and more fond of them:

- length from 14mmm to 30mm
- diameter from 9mm to 14mm
- half of them are oval shaped others round
- there is some patina
- tapered holes
- the holes have some wear
- green beige colour
- one bead is opaque (see most right one in one of the pictures)

They remind me of some beads I have seen labeled as Green stone, even Jade , but it does not look like Guatemala Jade I have found in the archives, which was much darker green. I don’t think they are serpentine – I tested it with a knive.

The best resemblance is with beads from Jan Skipper aka Mosquitobay on this link:
http://www.beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=get&cG=7323934383&zu=3732393335&v=2&gV=0&p=
The most green beads on the third picture of the second row look most like it.

They are less green than Danny Lopacki’s Pre-Columbian Jade bead (see link below), but the stone structure looks alike- at least to me and I am no stone specialist!:
http://www.beadcollector.net/cgi-bin/anyboard.cgi?fvp=/openforum/&cmd=get&cG=5393439363&zu=3539343936&v=2&gV=0&p=

My questions are:
- can someone identify my “green” stones
-> stone type?
-> origin?
-> date?
- or anything else you could tell me about them.

Thank you!!! Have a nice weekend.