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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3436888, member: 97383&quot;]Nice one Gavin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!!! For those who may not know, jade axegod pendants were prized burial objects among the social elites in ancient Costa Rica. The pendant illustrated is about 1,800 years old, give or take 200 years. They were made in ceremonial fashion without the use of metal tools. A jade celt was cut in half from two ways lengthwise &amp; split in half, leaving a septum on the undecorated back side. The one illustrated has unusually fine carving. My favorite Cost Rican jade is much smaller, 2 1/16 in. long, &amp; carved from gem quality sea-green jade, c. A.D. 300-700. It is pierced transversely at the neck area to be worn as a pendant. I scored it at a Sotheby Pre Columbian auction in NYC, in 1994. See photos below. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]912525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]912526[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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