“On Sunday last I saw and handled the seer stone that the Prophet Joseph Smith had. It was a dark, color, not round on one side. It was shaped like the top of a baby’s shoe, one end like the toe of the shoe, and the other round.”

Samuel Bateman, Diary – 17 August 1887 (Provo, UT: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library), 69.