11-24-2024 12:10 PM
I have the bracelet, pendant and ring. all sterling with the same color stones. do you know they are ? cold to the touch.
11-24-2024 02:00 PM
That's a hard one. Some look like amber. Some tiger eye. Some almost yellow jasper.
11-24-2024 06:49 PM
I have to agree with poster @slyders_finds
It's so hard naming gemstones with a pic. I'm leaning towards Amber myself. Where's our gem guy...hmmmm, 📞 📞 📞
11-27-2024 11:08 AM - edited 11-27-2024 11:10 AM
Really hard to tell from photos, but they don't look like amber to me. They look more like chalcedony, which the jasper or tiger eye would both be considered. The occasional banding would be an anomaly for amber but common in chalcedony. Some low-grade amber has the big sections that are not transparent, but one would expect more clarity and discoid and organic inclusions for amber.
There MAY be evidence of dye. It looks like there are color concentrations in some fissures towards the surfaces.
Amber is also not nearly as hard. It would be a little warmer to the touch. It would "clack" when you flick it with a fingernail where something harder like chalcedony will "click" when you flick it. Amber will also take a polish with jewelers' polishing compound Fabulustre or normal white polishing rouge.
12-06-2024 09:08 AM
From the flash of light I see in your pendant, it looks like what is called "sunstone". Do all the other stones have that effect or is it an illusion caused by the lighting?
12-09-2024 01:06 PM
I saw that and determined that I believed it was a reflection of the surface...not the spangly "aventurescence" of sunstone. But if the stone exhibits a glittery effect under direct light, @retiredchickie is on to something!