[Jewelry making - Article 00007] - Re: [Orchid] Alexandrite Ring Repair

[Patricia Hicks]

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    All who possibly can, should once in their lifetimes observe a
    genuine Alexandrite. There is truly nothing else like it and could
    never be forgotten. Early in the discovery of those stones there
    were quite large ones available. Probably all in vaults and
    treasuries now, but I knew a woman who had a suite of them, necklace
    ring and earrings, and saw them in all lights and conditions, and
    found it most difficult to look at anything else in their presence. 
    Many years later I met a lady who had lucked onto a ring with at
    least a 6x8mm stone in, at a yard sale in a shoebox of costume
    jewelry. She knew it was something special, as did I on looking upon
    it. Alexandrites do not look at all like the synthetic corundums.
    The colors are quite different and they in no way look glassy.  The
    luster is rather a greasy one, deep and mysterious. Make an effort to
    find one in museum or private collection. It would be memorable. 

Patricia

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