[Jewelry making - Article 00249] - Re: [Orchid] "Cherry Quartz" beads

[Douglas Turet]

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    Hi Susan (Lucas) and gang, I've been following this thread for the
    past few days, and although I wasn't there to see these "Cherry
    Quartzes", I can't help but wonder whether anyone has yet given any
    thought to cutting and/or polishing a facet on any of these beads,
    to test for it's Refractive Index, before calling them "glass".
    Given the sheer range of colors currently available in floating
    point and hydrothermally-grown Synthetic Quartzes, nowadays --
    including colorless, smokey brown, light, medium, "grape jelly" and
    "Siberian" purples, crisp light and dark blues, medium and deep
    Tourmaline greens, canary, golden and brownish yellows and hot,
    intense pinks, at last count, and the fact that such crystals often
    reach tens, if not hundreds of thousands of carats, in size -- it
    seems more than a little possible that these items were, indeed,
    "cherry" colored Synthetic Quartzes. As for the part about
    disclosure? Well, this wouldn't be much of a first now, would it? 

    All my best, Douglas Turet, GJ Turet Design P.O. Box 162 Arlington, MA
    02476 Tel. (617) 325-5328 eFax (928) 222-0815 
    anotherbrightidea AT hotmail.com


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