G'day Steve,   
      
   My view as a geo/anthropologist is that all jewelery and in fact all treasure   
   is meant to be stolen. It merely adds to the legends. Campin is a particularly   
   silly grump.    
      
   Here's a freebie. Iona greenstone, from its serpentinite association, and   
   hardness, may be nephrite jade. May be wrong, one beach would prove it, but I   
   much doubt any marble pebbles would survive in an active beach - too soft.    
      
   So, sell your jewellery to China if it is nephrite. They go bonkers about the   
   white colours and the price has gone even more bonkers.    
      
   To play fair, tell the folk on Iona? Place is not rich.   
      
   Peter.   
      
   Peter Spencer Ravenscroft. Geologist/social anthropologist/aging grump.   
   Ravenswood Wildlife Sanctuary (Google “Rescue Ravenswood “ if interested)   
   Closeburn, Queensland, Australia. Ph: 617 32894470 Email p.s.rav   
   nscroft@gmail.com Ex-Cape Town, for 26    
   years. Anti-apartheid then, anti-aparthate now.    
      
      
   PS: One lady who lost a jade brooch over a hundred years ago advertised a   
   reward for its recovery in every edition of the paper for over adecade. Maybe   
   she owned the paper, dunno. The legend of luck, no doubt.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)