2 7/8" Nicely Made Modern Quartz Bottle Bannerstone. Perhaps the most common of hardstone reproductions over the past 100+ years bannerstones continue to attract and captivate collectors in the Midwest. This is a very nice bannerstone made of ferruginous quartz from Alabama. For decades modern bannerstone makers have used Alabama quartz for its color and consistency to make all variety of bannerstones. Oddly enough there have been almost no pre-historic bannerstones found in Alabama making it fairly easy to identify a large percentage of the banners that are for sale online, sitting in collections, in antique malls or wherever they pop up. Guaranteed to Thermoluminescence test as modern.

Modern