[Jewelry making - Article 00026] - Re: [Orchid] Snowville, Utah Variquoise

[Lee Einer]

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>      I have an opportunity to purchase about 50 lbs of this material
>     (love to work with it) and am wondering if anyone on this list has
>     any idea of what it might be worth? 

    A related question set is, to whom will you be selling, in what
    form, will THEY know what its worth, and if not, can you educate
    them? 

    I really like variscite, spiderweb, translucent, and otherwise. One
    thing I have found,  though, in selling finished jewelry to the
    public, at least; sometimes, the wonderful, rare, delightful stuff
    (e.g., high grade covellite)  doesn't sell worth beans, because the
    general public has no idea of its real worth. Often, they will zoom
    right past it and go for something much more common because they
    have seen it hyped elsewhere. So, before you buy 50 pounds of this
    stuff (which I agree is beautiful, of short supply and totally worth
    it from my own perspective) you may wish to consider it from your
    customers perspective, and ask whether they will understand the
    price differential between spiderweb variscite, chinese  turquoise
    or even plasticized sliced turquoise loaf. If they will not, you
    will either need to educate them, get the rough way cheap, or be
    prepared to have the finished goods on your hands for a long time. 

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com

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