I just saw a beautiful pair of Art Deco 18K Jade, Onyx and Diamond earrings in a Sarasota, Florida jewelry store. I couldn’t take a photo of the earrings in the shop and they didn’t have an image of the earrings on their website, but I searched online and found a similar design – seen [...]
Finding Uruguay Amethyst in Thailand. Not easy.
Although amethyst is found globally, its quality differs based on the region and source where it comes from.
Uruguay amethyst is considered one of the highest quality of all amethyst with color saturation ranging from medium to deep highly saturated violet-purple.
At left is a Michael Valitutti Uruguay Amethyst and Diamond [...]
We’ve mentioned black gemstones in numerous other posts. I want to add a new one to the list – Hawaiian Black Coral. In local Hawaiian language it is called, ‘ēkaha kū moana.
Black coral (Antipatharia) is a group of deep water, tree-like corals related to sea anemones. Black coral was originally found in Hawaii in 1958 [...]
Out of all the beautiful stones that I brought to sell on The Big Island of Hawai’i it was the strand of rectangular Iolite beads that piqued my interest the most – I ended up keeping it to make a bracelet for myself. There is something about its blue-gray-purple color with hints of silver and [...]
It’s going to be a dark winter – well maybe not in sunny Thailand, but with the Financial Crisis still hanging on, and only small and slow signs of recovery in some markets, we are seeing black, grey and brown colors on the fashion runways and already covering the shelves in local Thai clothing stores. [...]
Mention the gemstone Zircon and most people think of Cubic Zirconia or CZ. Although these two materials are both used in jewelry production, they are quite different in their composition and make-up.
Zircon is naturally occurring whereas Cubic Zirconia is a manufactured, or lab-created material. Back in the 1900’s Zircon was used as a diamond substitute, [...]