Photo #529
Pastel/Het Gravel or YB with a piece of...jasper maybe? (from Southwest, USA) The stone has a lot of banded inclusions which makes it difficult to polish evenly. You can see the snakes head reflected in the polish.
Side Story: I had some workers over to do some maintenance on my house.
They saw my rodents in the basement and wanted an explanation-so I told them I breed snakes. They called my house a 'horror show'. Which is funny to me-because I wouldn't have it any other way...
They insisted I show them one of my snakes so I held up a yearling ball python and they cringed in terror and wanted to know if it was venomous.
I tried to convince them that ball-pythons were harmless, but they weren't having it-and demanded to know what my city by-laws were on keeping dangerous animals *sigh*.