Pennsylvania Bannerstone Material Help?

[oklasodak]

I'm trying to I.D. the material on this bannerstone. The provenance is loosely suggested to be the Lehigh Valley in PA. Does anyone recognize it? Or have an educated guess?

Beautiful Bannerstone W/Many Questions

[oklasodak]

Closest I can come is that it is a Jasper of some sort though I have not found a great color match. Here's a PA point with two-tone Jasper that appears to be almost a pinkish and creamish color:

Well Made, Susquehanna Arrowhead Indian Artifact Pennsylvania Relic | eBay

[uniface]

If (since) that's what it seems to be, you have another narrowing-down angle you can take with it.

Eastern Penna. was riddled with Jasper quarry pits when the Germans came and settled it ; the first thing they did after clearing the trees off was to fill them up. Many of these seem to have supplied site-specific varieties known only from authentic artifacts. If nobody in your collector circle(s) has ever seen a fake relic of that specific jasper, you have a confidence factor going.

FWIW

[ghost recon]

Originally Posted by oklasodak

I'm trying to I.D. the material on this bannerstone. The provenance is loosely suggested to be the Lehigh Valley in PA. Does anyone recognize it? Or have an educated guess?

Beautiful Bannerstone W/Many Questions

Looks like a heat treated and polished quartz imo.

[Palmwood]

Originally Posted by ghost recon

Looks like a heat treated and polished quartz imo.

DITTO, I will get some drilling photos up on here soon for comparison.

[oklasodak]

Originally Posted by Palmwood

DITTO, I will get some drilling photos up on here soon for comparison.

Appreciate it. If you read my thread on the bannerstone, I've pretty much given up on finding a match from the eastern seaboard though. It looks like Raspberry Alabaster from Utah.

I hope you guys can come up with a viable alternative for comparison or I may have to give up on this one!

EDIT: I figured it out. The material is Raspberry Alabaster from Utah. For an Archaic banner, this pretty much solidifies the fact that this one is a fake. Thanks for your help everyone.