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Hello Anita (and Bill),
I have to agree that this elongate bead appears to be a recent fake�and I agree that it has been crackled and turned red (the pigment gathering in the cracks, mainly). The Chinese have been making similar fakes, that I know of, since the early 1980s. I will bet it is serpentine, and not jade. Bowenite? OK.
Jamey
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