Couple oddball cabs

rockjunquie Global Moderator Member since March 2012 Posts: 34,998	Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 19:11:36 GMT -5 jasoninsd and Bravura Cabochon Designs like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockjunquie on Jul 24, 2022 19:11:36 GMT -5 Oooooooo and awwwwwww!! I love your shapes. And that chrysoprase is really juicy.

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Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 19:40:25 GMT -5 rockjunquie, Bravura Cabochon Designs, and 1 more like this

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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 24, 2022 19:40:25 GMT -5

I like the cross between a facet and a dome! A domacet?

While "juicy" isn't the word I was originally thinking when I saw the material...maybe Tela has the right descriptive word! LOL - Beautiful material and really awesome shapes!

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Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 19:55:59 GMT -5 rockjunquie, Starguy, and 1 more like this

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jul 24, 2022 19:55:59 GMT -5

Beautiful! Looks like old stock Marlborough Chrysoprase to me. It has that lovely blue green color. I agree with Tela, they're juicy!

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Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 20:12:49 GMT -5 rockjunquie and Bravura Cabochon Designs like this

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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jul 24, 2022 20:12:49 GMT -5

Definitely old stock. It's very hard to find clean Marlborough nowadays. Hell, it was hard to find 10 years ago. Most of it is not that nice blue green and lots of brown inclusions.

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Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 20:35:40 GMT -5 Starguy, hummingbirdstones, and 1 more like this

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Post by gemfeller on Jul 24, 2022 20:35:40 GMT -5

Jul 24, 2022 19:59:00 GMT -5 Bravura Cabochon Designs said:

Jul 24, 2022 19:55:59 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones said:

Beautiful! Looks like old stock Marlborough Chrysoprase to me. It has that lovely blue green color. I agree with Tela, they're juicy!

Thanks, and yep it’s Marlborough stuff. Not sure about which mine, but it was purchased and mined out within a year by a Chinese mining company about 25 years ago per seller.

Nice cabs, material and interesting cuts. Lots of mythology in the gem trade though. Marlborough chrysoprase came onto the market over 60 years ago. If my memory is right the mine was purchased by a Hong Kong firm sometime in the 1970s or so. I bought beautiful cabs from them (they wouldn't sell rough) as recently as the early 2000's. Some of our Australian members might be able to provide a more specific chronology. They still might be in business but last time I checked the prices were very high.

I still have a small amount of primo Marlborough rough. The beauty of that specific location is it generally lacks the truly frustrating tiny internal crystal vugs so often present in similarly-colored material from the same region of Western Oz. I've often been really frustrated to have one of them open up just as I'm finishing an otherwise flawless cab.

jasoninsd can identify rocks - even green ones I Wish I Knew Half The Stuff I Thought I Knew 30 Years Ago! Member since July 2020 Posts: 18,436	Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 20:45:32 GMT -5 mohs, gemfeller, and 4 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jasoninsd on Jul 24, 2022 20:45:32 GMT -5 Oh wait...this is probably a different Marlboro! LOL
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gemfeller Cave Dweller Member since June 2011 Posts: 4,060	Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 20:51:15 GMT -5 mohs, Rockoonz, and 4 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by gemfeller on Jul 24, 2022 20:51:15 GMT -5 Jul 24, 2022 20:45:32 GMT -5 jasoninsd said: Oh wait...this is probably a different Marlboro! LOL Cigarettes being what they are, I think he's now the Marblerow Man (as in gravestones).

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Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 20:59:21 GMT -5 mohs, gemfeller, and 3 more like this

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Post by jasoninsd on Jul 24, 2022 20:59:21 GMT -5

Jul 24, 2022 20:51:15 GMT -5 gemfeller said:

Jul 24, 2022 20:45:32 GMT -5 jasoninsd said:

Oh wait...this is probably a different Marlboro! LOL

Cigarettes being what they are, I think he's now the Marblerow Man (as in gravestones).

"Robert Norris, original Marlboro Man who never actually smoked, has died at age 90" (USA Today 11/9/2019)

www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/11/09/marlboro-man-robert-bob-norris-dies-colorado/2543498001/

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mohs In Memoriam RIP mohstly Member since January 2009 Posts: 19,412	Couple oddball cabs Jul 24, 2022 21:22:49 GMT -5 hummingbirdstones, jasoninsd, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mohs on Jul 24, 2022 21:22:49 GMT -5 Tex Hal Earnhardt December 9, 1930 – April 19, 2020 fine looking cabs and that ain't no Bull
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vegasjames no longer being taken for granite Member since June 2013 Posts: 9,572	Couple oddball cabs Jul 25, 2022 4:51:13 GMT -5 Bravura Cabochon Designs likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by vegasjames on Jul 25, 2022 4:51:13 GMT -5 Cool color.

Rockoonz misunderstood rock expert Member since August 2009 Posts: 11,474 Member is Online	Couple oddball cabs Jul 25, 2022 9:47:36 GMT -5 Bravura Cabochon Designs likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rockoonz on Jul 25, 2022 9:47:36 GMT -5 As the others said, great material and cool, very setable shapes.
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