Tigers Eye?

[bonedoggle]

Tiger's Eye?

Found this Rock in a river. Don't recall exactly where but I am guessing mid Atlantic US. I am also thinking this is raw Tigers Eye.

Any thoughts or comments appreciated.

 

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[gunsil]

I don't think it is tiger eye, most of which comes from Africa.

 

[stefen]

Y'all beat me to it...

 

[Eu_citzen]

Tigers eye has a very typical sheen and "fiber-like" structure to it. So I have to agree, this is likely not tigers eye.
Difficult to say what it is, though.

 

[bonedoggle]

Tks guys. Is the sheen from polishing which this has not been? Just River tumbled.

 

[PennyG]

Seer stone? I have a bunch and wondered the same thing.

 

[bonedoggle]

Wow. Bullseye. Thank you.
Excerpted from wiki. Pretty awesome given the context.

Some early-nineteenth-century Americans used seer stones in attempts to gain revelations from God or to find buried treasure.[6] From about 1819, Smith regularly practiced scrying, a form of divination in which a "seer" looked into a seer stone to receive supernatural knowledge.[7] Smith usually practiced crystal gazing by putting a stone at the bottom of a white stovepipe hat, putting his face over the hat to block the light, then divining information from the stone.[8] Smith and his father achieved "something of a mysterious local reputation in the profession—mysterious because there is no record that they ever found anything despite the readiness of some local residents to pay for their efforts."[9]

 

[bonedoggle]

Seems like mr Mormon himself had two of them and before smith founded the church he was a treasure hunter

 

[Eu_citzen]

Tks guys. Is the sheen from polishing which this has not been? Just River tumbled.

The sheen is from the fibers in tiger eye. If cut right, you get a cats eye "effect".
But it's visible even when rough.