[Jewelry making - Article 00436] - Re: [Orchid] Good quality stones at a good price?

[Gary Bourbonais]

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>     Ah, yes... I'm still working up to setting that very first
>     expensive stone I ever bought, a three carat purple sapphire. And
>     that fabulous triangular sphene... I'm pretty colose now, I think.
>     But once I set them, I'll have to sell them. I guess I'm a dragon
>     at heart, sitting on my hoard of baubles. 

    Smaug....[G]...! 

    I know this Dragon Lust well.... 

    Fighting that is the delight the mortals get when they see and
    purchase such baubles...caressed and wrapped in artful precious
    metal....showing off their fires and lights of beauty... 

    Somebody somewheres once referred to sphene as "a peridot on
    acid".....[G].... 

    I don't have any yet....gotta be nice to it, too...it's a softy... 

Gary W. Bourbonais
a>j>P. (GIA)
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