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Sand Dune - Vintage Silver Agate Pendant & Chain. This pretty pendant is crafted from a silver metal. Featuring a genuine agate gemstone, Vintage styling and quality craftsmanship. This pendant boasts a beautiful agate set in a decorative surmount. The stone is translucent and displays colours of brown, and grey/white. The chain is also Vintage , and looks to be original. It has a spring ring clasp in perfect working order. The Vintage agate pendant looks lovely when worn, and the agate looks wonderful against your skin or will pick up any colour worn behind it. Simple, earthy, and beautiful!

Picture agate displays natural inclusions that formed within the stone in such a way as to create well-defined images. These images have a natural, life-like, picturesque appearance and make picture agate a treasured stone among gemstone lapidaries.

Agate derives its name from a river in Sicily, which the Greeks called Achates. Vast quantities of agate were discovered in this river as early as 300 B.C. During the reign of Julius Caesar, while engaged in the Gallic Wars, deposits of agate were discovered along the Nahe River in Germany.

Measurements: Pendant 25.00 mm x 17.00 mm Chain 18"

Stone Size: Agate 26.00 mm x 17.00 mm

Weight: 3.20 grams

Condition: Excellent

Origin: America

Date: Circa 1960