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 Post subject: What type of crystal is this stone?
PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 4:16 pm 
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The central crystal is really unusual at first I thought it was a number of chips but after looking closely there are a number of cushion cut crystals on one stone. It also has veins etched in between the cut crystals or is this natural? Is it aquamarine, the metal is 800 silver. I think it’s really different as I’ve never seen this effect in jewellery before.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:27 pm 
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Absolutely impossible to tell from picture.
1) Is there a maker's mark?
2) do you know what the side stones are?

Other than that - find someone with a Raman Spectrometer. They can tell near instantly.


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Thry kind of look like they were glued in place and now some have fallen out. There is possibly a bubble visible in the glue too.

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Looks like a glue glob to me too.


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At first glance I thought it looked like a carved pig's snout, but glue makes more sense.

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Have checked the crystal under an ultra violet light and it glows red across all of it. If it was glue it would show a different colour surely. After doing some research this could be fluorite. The small stones around the centre stone show black in ultra violet light.


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Could you take a picture of the back side of the piece and post it. Thank you.
The fluorescence is weird. Red, eh?

What other instruments do you have to help ID?


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Here’s some pics of the brooch, a couple of the back and one of the stone under uv light. It is a bit dark but you can see how the crystal is showing red. Hope this helps.


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Look closely at the photos - in the center there are 5 light blue faceted objects joined by a colorless resinous substance.

In the UV photo, the faceted items are glowing reddish, the colorless stuff is just reflecting the red a bit.

None of the center stuff is of the same style or age as the rest of the piece. Probably something in the center fell out, and there was a clumsy attempt to fill it in.

What low-priced natural or imitation/synthetic gem fluoresces red? I am at work and need to get setting gems so I don't have time to look it up.

5 of those are attached to the piece with an excess of adhesive.


OK - so I looked. Don't tell my Boss!

Most likely flame fusion spinel...

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Back to setting diamonds!

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Excellent help!!! Thanks.

The piece is stamped 800, most probably indicating silver 80%, alloy 20%.
The piece is very tarnished or perhaps it was plated in the beginning of its life.

Aside from that abeck is correct. There are 5 stones in the center which have been glued together and the glue (under UV) is reflecting their fluorescence.

I suspect the accent stones are foil backed glass but that is speculation. Check them with magnification, SueWillBow.


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Barbra Voltaire, FGG wrote:
Excellent help!!! Thanks.

I suspect the accent stones are foil backed glass but that is speculation. Check them with magnification, SueWillBow.


I was wondering about that too. They could be either foil backs that have lost their foil (don't see proper reflection for the mirroring), or either non-foil back glass or the original "rhinestone", faceted quartz.

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