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 Post subject: What do you think? Sight ID?
PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:55 pm 
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This is on an auction site listed as all natural emerald cluster https://www.ebay.com/itm/274383324506
Don’t know if this link will function...


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:04 pm 
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Can't be sure from the pictures alone. But, it does look a lot like the Chatham Created Crystal clusters from the late 70s and early 80s. The ring style looks like that period as well.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:04 pm 
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Fixed the link.
It does look like a classic hydrothermal cluster, doesn't it? Not to say it couldn't be natural or something else entirely.
Edit:hah, was right on your heels.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:49 pm 
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Thanks for fixing the link!
So many times online things are miss represented; intentionally or otherwise. Wish the FTC would step in.
I rarely get a response when I text the vendors that they need a second opinion. If i do get response it is usually less than appreciative....


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I would bet on Chatham synthetic crystals. I sold rings like this back in the day...new.


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:28 am 
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Barbra Voltaire, FGG wrote:
I would bet on Chatham synthetic crystals. I sold rings like this back in the day...new.


Exactly!


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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 5:58 pm 
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Indeed, looks exactly like Chatham flux emerald clusters. Lots of these clusters were available at Chatham table in GJX Tucson last year. So they are still available.

Quick, not-so-good phone photo of such a cluster...
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