Big Boulder Opal and Tahitian Pearl on Rare Kyanites

I LOVE this new piece. It is a one of a kind luscious statement! The pearl is an aubergine Tahitian pearl teamed with a huge FLASHY boulder opal and strung on all highest quality kyanite. The bezel is solid 22k gold. The unseen under bezel is sterling silver. All of the gold beads are 14k. It is strung on wire to 21.5 inches with an 18k gold lobster claw clasp.

$6,500.

Unfortunately, brooches are not being worn like they used to, so I have created a unique vertical converter that allows it to be worn as a necklace with the included double strand beads, an enhancer with anything you may already have, or a brooch. What wonderful versatility! The stones are lovely and huge. There is a fancy cut peridot and an equally intense teal with green boarder ammolite (fossilized opal). Ammolite is opalized ammonite fossil from Southern Alberta, Canada. It is millions of years old but was only discovered in the early 1980s. This ammolite has superior flash! The design is a one of a kind. It is hand formed and fabricated. It took days just to make the converter! The beads are a single strand of large facetted peridot roundels at the bottom that unexpectedly splits into double strands of small neon blue apatite segments in between regular longer intervals of facetted peridot segments. The clasp is a unique partly handmade clasp with a commercial lobster claw on the end for safety. It is pretty enough to be worn alone.

$6,500

The Ammolite is a whopping 27mm x 23mm long and is bezel set in 22k and 14k gold! Due to the unusual trapezoidal shape, I felt the ammolite needed something to visually balance out the lower corner and I chose a lavender pink freshwater cultured pearl. The pearl addition balanced the piece, but it still needed a little something…hence the facetted sapphire bezel set into the pearl. The smile bar is 14k gold. This necklace is strung to 18” on a durable synthetic string that moves like silk but won't shred, stretch, or fray like silk. It has a signed hangtag and a 14k lobster claw clasp. The stringing on this necklace is unique because the 18k bar makes the pink pearls become part of the pendant in the way they drop down with the pendant. The effect of this also gives the pendant added movement. A lot of jewelry is just ornament. I consider this special piece to be true art in precious materials. The facetted beads that compliment the rare blue in this ammolite are kyanite in the finest quality! It is strung with a 14k lobster claw clasp to about 17 inches in length (that is from the gold bar to the clasp.) The string is a durable synthetic fiber that moves like silk but doesn't stretch, shred or fray like silk.

$4,200

Impressive 11mm x 9mm bright flawless iolite and intense multicolor 17mm x 10mm boulder opal make up this 30mm x 11mm long pendant. You may not know this, but large flawless iolite is so hard to find right now, and that is why no one is talking about iolite!

They became so hard to get that all talk of them has vanished! It is like what happened to alexandrite, the real June birthstone. Did you know that in the 1920s, and 1930s you could buy alexandrite at the local jewelers as if it were amethyst today. Then it became mined out and the price rose so high that no one even talked about it because only the super rich could afford it (until now because after 76 years they finally found a new alexandrite mine-but I digress.) Well this is what I’ve noticed with iolite. Luckily, I buy large parcels when I find a great deal so I can bring my work to you at better prices. I’m a great gemstone bargain hunter. Then, because I’ve bought more than little old me can use fast enough, I still have them when everyone else says, “iolite? Ha, who has good iolite?!” Well we do right here in this piece! The bezels of this piece are 22k gold, the under bezels are 14k gold. It is all hand formed and fabricated. The beads are juicy, impossible to find tanzanite beads that has also been hoarded in my safe since the early 90s. The icing on the cake are the equally highly prized hot pink spinel accents in the stringing. These are the last hot pink spinels that I have. The length is 19.5”. It is strung on a durable synthetic string that moves like silk but won’t shred, stretch, or fray like silk. You will love the classical, timeless feminine design.

$3600.

Gaff Sloop

One of a kind formed and fabricated piece. The top stone is a boulder opal with a unique pattern and blue flash. The bottom opal is actually opalized ammonite fossil from Southern Alberta, Canada. It is called ammolite. This piece is an enhancer so you can wear it on your omega, pearls, chains... The bezels on the pendant are 22k gold and the underbezels are sterling silver. The enhancer finding and loop are 14k gold. It is a marriage of the three metals.

The pendant dimensions are approximately 2 inches x 1 7/16 inches. The enhancer includes a 17.5 inch rust color-enhanced, fresh water, cultured potato shaped pearl necklace with a 14k lobster claw clasp. Beads in the photo are not included.

$2,300.