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Got this in an email from my jeweller...

Can anyone guess what this is?

The 'Crow' Agate

Why the crow?

Check out this piece of agate! Pay attention to the black area and do you see the outline of a crow, with its beak?
Mother Nature's beautiful painting in stone!

The '7 sins' Diamond Ring

Why seven sins?

Well.. cos there 7 brilliant cut diamonds in this particular piece...

3 on the side flanks.. and one central brillant which is abt 30 pointers!

A simple, ever green design, that I do wear occassionally!

The 'eye' Agate

This is an interesting piece that I obtained some time back...

Actually, I cant remember where I got this piece from..

Its interesting in a sense that its translucent agate, with patches of black, like that of an eye.

Have not decided what to do with it too...

Think it would look nice as a centrepiece of a design!

White Sapphire: From rough to gem..

I found this very interesting video on Youtube that shows the whole process of mining white sapphire.. all the way to polishing and facetting as a gem!

Extremely educational.. something that is so behind the scenes, I would even say, unglam, of the gem stone industry!

Enjoy!

Facetted Smoky Quartz

This is quite a special facetted smoky quartz that was given to me by Barbara Smigel, ex owner of ACStones.com.

She gave it to me years back during an anniversary sale, because it has just a little chip at one of the corners.. but this could be easily concealed using a prong when setting...

The special facetted trapezoid cut gives the otherwise common stone a beautiful make over!