[Jewelry making - Article 00312] - Re: [Orchid] Domestic Diamond Mining?

[Jim Revells]

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    Thanks to all who answered my questions.  The purpose of the hunt is
    to find one small raw stone that I can use in an Arts & Sciences
    project for a Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org/)
    A&S exhibit (I'll be out there on another reason, but am killing two
    birds with one stone).  The plan is to hand polish the faces of the
    raw diamond & create a high karat setting like the Roman ring on pg
    37 of "Ancient Jewellery" by Jack Ogden (or if I can find the
    documentation for it again a Roman stirrup shaped ring that I saw in
    one of the fifty odd books on historic jewelry I have here at the
    house).  I will also try to find the gold to do this with by panning
    for it in New England (if I don't have any luck I will have to buy
    the stone & the gold for the project).  The goal is to create a
    museum quality reproduction using period techniques (this project
    will probably be using the techniques available to a late Roman era
    jeweler in York, I usually do Viking era projects based on finds at
    Birka or Gottland for my hobby, most of the jewelry I design for
    modern customers is based on Medieval themes). Thanks to all, 

Jim Revells,
Sudden Service Jewelry & Watch Repair,
Massachuets



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