Hand Carved Scenic Buffalo Under a Tree, Verdite Plate Sculpture x 1 From Zimbabwe

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 

A Very Nice Wooden based 25cm High Green Verdite carving of a buffalo beneath a tree, on a wooden display stand. The Back of this piece is left Natural and the front intricately Diamond tooled Sculpted. 

Verdite is a light to dark green Serpentine-like mineral dating back 3500 million years ago. This beautiful green stone of Africa comes from The Barberton Greenbelt which starts as Verdite, morphing a little further along the Mountain Range into Bud Stone and then changing into Green Chert and Swaziland Jade. (Swaziland Bloodstone is a little further again in the same Mountains on Verdite is the term used for a Fuchsite based rock discovered in South Africa, but the deposits extends in Zimbabwe.  

PRODUCT DATA
Locality = Zimbabwe
Grade = A Grade
Size = 248 x 210 x 100 mm