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Sold Date: 03/02/2009
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Advertising

This piece features a natural Moldavite specimen from the Czech Republic set together with a flawless 7 mm (1/4ths inches) Herkimer Diamond Quartz Crystal that's extra complete with a tiny seed crystal present as well. The Moldavite is 23 mm (about 15/16ths inches) at it's longest dimension, the whole piece measures 44 mm (1&3/4ths inches) long, they're set together in Argentium Sterling Silver, a new tarnish resistant sterling silver alloy.

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Something about Moldavite: Moldavite is probably best described briefly as "glass created by meteorite impact". It is very popular and well known, rightfully so because it’s a lovely and rare stone, but t are a lot of misconceptions about it.
A lot of people will lead you to believe that Moldavite is from outer space, and this is not really the case. Moldavite may have been in outer space briefly, but only for as long as it took to fall back to the ground after the impact and most of the material present in the stone is of terrestrial origin.
Moldavite belongs to a class of stones called "tektites", which includes but is not limited to these stones created my impacts. T are other tektites from other places, but with the exception of a couple of small deposits of yellow tektites (Libya, and Georgia,USA), Moldavite is the only one suitable for cutting as the rest are very dark and appear black. In color Moldavite can range from pale to dark green , sometimes with a blue-ish tint.
This stone is only from Europe, it is named for the Moldau river valley w it is found. I don’t care what anyone says, "African moldavite" is not moldavite at all and is misleading. Frankly, at the international gem shows I attend, we dealers joke about that stuff ("African moldavite") still being shaped like the bottom of a Heineken bottle. I’m not saying that "African moldavite" is a synthetic and that it is being misrepresented because I couldn’t say for sure, but if I had to guess that’s what my guess would be. Regardless, it is obviously different stuff and calling it "moldavite" is only an attempt to attach onto the popularity of the real thing and dupe buyers looking for Moldavite who are not yet well informed. As a dealer, I don’t appreciate this because it is confusing and some buyers may wind up less than happy, turning them off to the market at large. I think the folks who sell "African moldavite" should come up with their own unique name for their material.
I recently learned that tektites are named for thier location of origen, so, natural or not t is no such thing as "African Moldavite".

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