[Jewelry making - Article 00133] - Re: [Orchid] Caringorm: nowhere to be found?

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    You were advised correctly. The Scottish source for cairngorms has
    been mined out for a long time. You MIGHT find one by spending a lot
    of time searching ebay for cairngorm brooches and such, but you
    would have to be very careful  in making sure the seller is in fact
    selling an authentic natural cairngorm. If you find one it will have
    to be pretty old, say 100 years more or less, and  you'll pay a
    pretty stiff price. I've looked into it and even bought a couple,
    all of which have turned out to have been misrepresented by the
    seller, Unintentionally, I'm sure O:-) .As far as  I'm concerned
    smoky quartz is smoky quartz. I took the fake "cairngorm" out of a
    nice sterling brooch  I had bought my wife some forty years ago and
    cut a new one out of a large piece of smoky quatrz/citrine I  bought
    from  New Era a few years ago. Looks great. 

Jerry in Kodiak

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