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We find enjoyment, it is true, in the agreeable green of grass and leaves, but incomparably greater is the pleasure of beholding an emerald; for its green is the most satisfying of all,” so Pliny extolled the aristocratic chieftain of the beryl family. Nevertheless, the reader has the feeling that even Pliny, despite his telling [...]

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The beguiling luster of this attractive gemstone—shining like damp moss in autumn sunshine—earned peridot the sobriquet of “green gold.” In earlier times it was readily linked with the sun, of whose bright rays it was said to be the keeper and therefore alleged to be a shield against the threat of eclipse and blindness of [...]

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Over and above the gemstones are still numerous minerals which make beautiful gemstomes in cut form as well as completely fulfilling the requirements of beauty, rarity, and durability. Their popularity and their market success are mostly determined by their great rarity; because of the latter they are all the more coveted by collectors. Contrary to [...]

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In jade is sealed the alliance between man and gemstone through thousands of years. Its use was not confined only to man’s ornamental and protective needs in the form of jewelry and amulets, but also served him in the early Stone Age as one of the elementary implements of his culture—as tools for hammering, splitting, [...]

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The interest of its gnarled banding, which unlike most other ornamental stones is not multicolored but patterned throughout in contrasting shades of light to dark green, has earned malachite many admirers. In ancient times it was likened to the innumerable green shades of mallow leaves.

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These attractive and original necklaces are made from oven-baked clay beads, painted with bright enamel paint and threaded or linked with jeweler’s wire. The beads can be left plain, interspersed with bought beads for contrast, or made in a variety of shapes and sizes to create individual and unusual jewelry.
The red choker
Make 26 clay beads [...]

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The list of transparent stones which have been faceted and set in jewellery is endless, and many of them are unlikely to come the way of the majority of members of the public. There are, however, a number that warrant a mention, and they are grouped together in this section.
Peridot
Oscar Wilde described the green of [...]

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The most important of the beryls is the emerald, but this family includes the sea blue or pale green aquamarine and the pink morganite as well as the yellow and pale brown beryls. Green beryls are distinguished by gemmologists from emeralds because they contain none of the chromium which gives emerald its grass green colour. [...]

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Most people think of garnets as red, but in fact only two of the six species of garnet are red; one is orange and three are green. That people do tend to think of garnet as a rich red stone is not surprising, however, since it was the red garnets from Bohemia that were used [...]

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Amethyst
Because amethyst has now become popular again, fine stones of a rich royal purple colour, free from inclusions, have become quite expensive. Though Brazil and Africa, particularly Zambia, seem to contain limitless supplies of amethyst, only a small amount of the material taken out of the ground is suitable for jewellery and only a tiny [...]

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