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==Question: What did Joseph Smith's seer stones look like?==
 
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===Witnesses gave descriptions of the stones===
 
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One witness reported (of the first, brown stone), from 1826:
 
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It was about the size of a small hen's egg, in the shape of a high-instepped shoe. It was composed of layers of different colors passing diagonally through it. It was very hard and smooth, perhaps by being carried in the pocket.<ref>W. D. Purple,  ''The Chenango Union'' (3 May 1877); cited in {{NewWitnessForChrist1|vol=2|start=365}} (See Van Wagoner and Walker, 54.)</ref>
 
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[the] Seer Stone was the shape of an egg though not quite so large, of a gray cast something like granite but with white stripes running around it.  It was transparent but had no holes, neither on the end or in the sides.<ref>Richard Marcellas Robinson, "The History of a Nephite Coin," manuscript, 20 December 1834, LDS Church archives; cited in {{Ashurst-McGee-Thesis1|start=264}}</ref>
 
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