[Jewelry making - Article 00554] - Re: [Orchid] Yellow Turquoise

[Nick]

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Zen,

    Misnomers are a real pain and as you say it would be nice if
    everyone was truthful! Howver we all know that that just won't happen
    in this world. So as has been mentioned by James in SoFI education is
    still the best way to go in order to 'protect' yourself and your
    customers. There are some books available that give lists of
    misnomers and my personal favourite (for gemmology as a whole) is
    Gems, their sources, descriptions and identification by Robert
    Webster. It is big (thick and heavy) and quite costly, but does give
    a lot of valuable information and it has a list of misnomers (17
    pages of them actually, under the heading of "Glossary of unusual
    names") that does not contain either of the two you raised, but does
    contain many others. So as you can see even this list is incomplete
    and should be updated. I doubt there are many people out there who
    know all the misnmomers!

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