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| Amethyst stalactite trunk |
#jewelleryfacts365 234/365 Gem fact
The most common species of tourmaline is schorl, (brownish or black in colour). It may account for 95% or more of all tourmaline in nature.
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| Black tourmaline |
#jewelleryfacts365 233/365 Gem fact
In 1593, Friar De Nica travelled in New Mexico and noted that “the people have emeralds and other jewels, although they esteem none so much as turquoises, wherewith they adorn the wall of the porches of their houses and apparel and vessels, and they use them instead of money through all the country.”
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| Blue turquoise cocktail ring, sterling silver |
#jewelleryfacts365 232/365 Sapphire fact
A rare variety of sapphire, known as color changing sapphire, exhibits different colors in different light. A color change sapphire is blue in natural light, and violet in artificial light.
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| Owl ring with sapphire eye |
#jewelleryfacts365 231/365
A species of hard nut is gaining popularity as a replacement for ivory, although its size limits its usability. It is sometimes called vegetable ivory, or tagua, and is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
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| Tagua carvings |
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Both the Greek and Roman civilizations practiced ivory carving to make large quantities of high value works of art, precious religious objects, and decorative boxes for costly objects. Ivory was often used to form the white of the eyes of statues.
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| The Byzantine Barberini Ivory from the 6th Century AD has been attributed to a royal workshop in Constantinople. |
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