Can anyone figure out what this is?

[DearTeddyRobinson]

Present from DMIL. No idea what it is - possibly a stegosaurus?!

@Will0wtree

I think it might be looking back over its shoulder. (in the first photo you can see the head looking back towards the tail, but the other two photos show the back of it, so you can't see the head and it looks a bit odd)

They are meant to be lucky...there's a lot on the internet about where to put it in the house for the best sort of feng shui/luck if you like that sort of thing.

Thank you @Will0wtree, I'll take all the good feng shui I can get!

It’s a little dragon type thing carved from amethyst. Possibly an ornament or paperweight.

@bettyshotspot

It's amethyst isn't it? Like THIS

Why does that Ebay listing say Fetish?!

I saw something similar the other day somewhere and it was worth a fortune.

I was going to say it looks very like a jade dog I got in Chinatown last year at new year.

Why does that Ebay listing say Fetish?! confused

As I understand it, Fetish is also used to describe spiritual/animist/other religious practices - an ex used to describe (without any negative judgement) that his Dad's chicken farm had a separate shed were they bred pure white chickens 'for the Fetish Priests'.

Do you have a February birthday? Amethyst is the birthstone for February