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Blue Goldstone / 17MM Spike
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Item #: GEM020439
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Quantity: one / 16 inch strand / approximately 96pieces
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Shape: spike / dragons tooth
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Material: goldstone
- Grade: A
- Treatment: untreated / goldstone is a man made stone
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Mohs Hardness: 7
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Color: blue
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Finish: gloss / opaque
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Size: average 17mm x 5mm x 5mm -
Hole size: 1mm - End to end hole length: average 5mm
Goldstone is a type of glttering glass made in a low-oxygen reducing atomsphere. The finished product can take a smooth polish and be carved into beads, figurines, or other artifacts suitable for semiprecious stone, and in fact goldstone is often mistaken for or misrepresented as a natural material.The original manufacturing process for goldstone was invented in seventeenth-century Venice by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge.
Urban legend says goldstone was an accidental discovery by unspecified
Italian monks or the product of alchemy, but there is no pre-Miotti
documentation to confirm this.
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