Jewellery masterpieces

A COLORED DIAMOND AND DEMANTOID GARNET FLAMINGO BROOCH, BY CARVIN FRENCH
Designed as two pavé-set pink diamond flamingos, extending marquise-cut pink diamond wings, with faceted black diamond beaks and cabochon ruby eyes, standing on calibré-cut demaintoid garnet grass, mounted in 18k white gold, (each detaches and may be worn separately)

#jewelleryfacts365 158/365 Silver fact

Silver iodide has been used in attempts to seed clouds to produce rain. Silver iodide is often used in cloud seeding. A pound of silver iodide is enough to seed many cubic miles of clouds.

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Lovely specimen featuring a combination of Amethyst crystals with Rhodochrosite. This is a very rare specimen from a small, obscure find at the Broken Hill Mine in Australia.

#jewelleryfacts365 157/365 Ancient Egyptian jewellery fact

Why were faience beads so common? They were cheaper and less labor-intensive to make than stone beads. Aside from personal use and daily wear they were used to create beaded netting to cover mummies. Most of the archaeological specimens come from burials. (source)

Bead net for a mummy
Department of Egyptian Antiquities: The final Pharaonic dynasties and the Ptolemaic period (circa 1069 - 30 BC)

Jewellery masterpieces

AN IMPRESSIVE DIAMOND STOMACHER BROOCH
Crowned by a spray of diamond-set flowerheads, leaves and buds, suspending a panel of swags, tapering to a point at the base, each with knife-edge and collet centres, to the detachable pear-shaped diamond drops, circa 1860, 12.0 cm. high (flowerhead panel detachable to be worn as two brooches and a pendant, accompanied by an additional brooch fitting, one pendant deficient), in its original refurbished case

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The Native Americans used hematite to make a red face paint called red ocher.

Red ocher

Beautiful nature

#jewelleryfacts365 155/365 Pearl facts

Low-grade pearls are crushed up into a fine shimmery translucent powder and used as a make-up.

Pearl powder for makeup

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"The Rose Of Asia" Elbaite Tourmaline - Paprok, Afghanistan

#jewelleryfacts365 154/365 Gold fact

Nearly 40 percent of all gold ever mined was recovered from South African rocks.

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