Jade egg found in woods. ID?

[ATpro5]

This has to be one of the most odd things ive found while metal detecting. Found this jade egg outside in the woods by my grandmothers house. They live up on a mountain with no other houses around. But there was a house here in the 1890s. So im wondering... Is this something i dropped as a kid...? I dont ever remember playing with a jade egg as a child haha. Or is it from the people that used to live here.... Or is it even possibly a fossil of some kind? Its definitely some kind of green stone. Can anyone help me

 

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[ATpro5]

 

[cheese]

A lot of stone/mineral eggs have been made as decorative pieces. Google mineral eggs and see how many different ones there are. Odd thing to find in the woods though. Doesn't look like jade to me.

 

[Breezie]

Was this in the same hole as a metal object or did you eyeball it? I found a miniature German porcelain doll in the same hole with a Merc dime. I figured some child had buried them together. Neat find Breezie

 

[nhbenz]

There doesn't happen to be a dome over the town you live in is there?

Bad TV reference (Under the Dome), sorry about that.

 

[austin]

Don't think it's jade. It's dyed onyx and probably a souvenir from Mexico. They sell them in our El Mercado(the market, or tourist trap as it is also known), for $1 or whatever the gringo will pay) each to tourists. I am sitting here looking at one. I have a blue, green, red, black and white one.
Mommy collected eggs. I have the valuable ones boxed up and somewhere in the closet or maybe storage. The eggs are in a drawer..p.s. you can visit most rock shops and find them for sale...

 

[BosnMate]

Back in the days when dirt was young, and wages were low, mothers would repair their families damaged or worn clothing, and one of those repairs was called "darning." When darning a sock, they used a darning egg, and although most "eggs" were probably made of wood, my Aunt and Mother both had granite darning eggs from Germany. There were also glass darning eggs, and I remember the folks using glass eggs to give the hen the idea to start laying. The egg was used to hold the hole in the sock so it could be sewed up.
This shows the hole being held open in order for it to be "darned."
This is an English stone darning egg that dates to around 1800. These eggs were about the size of a large chicken egg, up to perhaps the size of a turkey egg.

 

[ATpro5]

Ive Never Heard Of A Darning Egg Before. My Grandmother Came Over From Germany And Has Always Been Into Sewing. its Possible That I May have Saw The Egg In Her Sewing Supplies And Took It. I Was Always Into Stones And Such As A Kid.Thanks For The Reply!!

 

[ATpro5]

Eyeball Find In The Dirt.

 

[Breezie]

Ive Never Heard Of A Darning Egg Before. My Grandmother Came Over From Germany And Has Always Been Into Sewing. its Possible That I May have Saw The Egg In Her Sewing Supplies And Took It. I Was Always Into Stones And Such As A Kid.Thanks For The Reply!!

This sounds like the most logical answer . . .now how COOL is that!!! Breezie