Monday, April 30, 2018

All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for May 2018!


Here are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for May 2018:


This Month's Special:  485+ct Clear Quartz with well-defined Green Epidote Crystals
Great for display in a curio cabinet or as a paperweight.  Measures approximately 75x35x26mm (about 3" long!)

This Month's Gem News:   The Violet Effect
Ultra Violet is the Pantone Color of the Year for 2018
Read More…

Newly Faceted or Photographed Gemstones: 
Large 12+ct Umbalite Garnet – Priced to move; a 7+ct Umbalite was selling at $1100/ct retail and our price blows that away, not to mention the size!
Fancy Golden Orange Tanzanite of just under 5cts – the unique and beautiful doesn’t get better!
Bright Fine Orange Tourmaline weighing just under 4cts – check it out…
5.69ct Oval Rhodolite, slightly dark but nice color and sparkle under lights – a give-a-way for this size and U.S. Cutting!
Two Beautiful Deep Chrome Green Tsavorites, under a carat each, great color, sparkle, etc.  SOLD to the Trade!
7.78ct Watermelon Sunstone from Oregon Faceted by one of our Multi-Award Winning Cutters!
Fairly New Arrivals:
Burmese Red Spinel Oval – orangy red depending on the lights
1.49ct Ruby UNHEATED – Recently Certed by GIA!
Two VERY Affordable Padparadscha Sapphire (due to size) – Recently Certed by GIA!
Unique Round Parti-Colored Sapphire, Blue/Yellow – Great Separation of Color!
Trilliant 2+ct Blue with Green Highlights Parti-Colored Sapphire
200+ct SCENIC Dendritic Quartz – Super scene showing rolling hills, trees and bluish sky!
4.30ct Pink and Orange with Red Highlights, Ouro Preto Imperial Topaz; pendant currently being designed by a multi-award winning designer!
Matched Trilliant Mahenge Garnet Suite (3) – Sold to a Jewelry Designer/Manufacturer
Matched Trilliant Fine Colored Very Brilliant Morganites (11mm and 12mm) – Sold to a Jewelry Designer/Manufacturer
Deep Blue Zircon, Emerald Cut and Fancy Oval – Sold to a Jewelry Designer/Manufacturer
Seymchan 1967 Russian Meteorite Slice, showing wonderful natural etching and set with 2 Round Tanzanites – One of a Kind!
Almost 200 gram Seymchan 1967 Russian Meteorite Slice, showing wonderful natural etching – both sides beautiful and possible for display
Over 261 gram Seymchan 1967 Russian Meteorite Slice, showing wonderful natural etching on one end and the natural surface everywhere else!
3 pieces of Amber with Insects – to be sold with Brass Display Stands which recently arrived
4 pieces of Newly Discovered “Ametrine Traphiche” Quartz – ALL pieces to be written up in Gems & Gemology this year!
Large 2,700+ct Quartz Crystal with various inclusions including attractive sprays of fine crystals – when lit from the base, it Glows…
                                                                                           
Gemstones in Cutting:
Currently in Cutting - Large Bluish Purple Amethyst (Rwanda); Smaller Sized Bluish Purple Amethyst (Congo); Orangy Zircon(2); Medium Sized Rhodolite/Umbalite Garnet; Small ‘Test’ Gemstones which include Fancy Rare Garnet (various colors), Zircon and Orangy Tourmaline.

All That Glitters In The News:
We have been contacted by Gemology Today Magazine as they wish to include one of All That Glitters Grooved Blended Ametrines in an article, specifically the half oval/half moon.  Should the article appear on line, we will include this in a future email for our customers viewing.
The newly photographed “Ametrine Trapiche” that we recently added into inventory and that is a new find originating in Brasil, will be featured in an article (Summer 2018) in the well-known Gems & Gemology Magazine by GIA.  All That Glitters Unique and Rare Gemstones have appeared in Gems & Gemology Magazine on a regular basis, with the first article being 1996 noting the newly discovered Imperial Malaia Garnet, named by the owner of All That Glitters.  All four new acquisitions will appear in the article, but one with be destroyed during the testing phase to determine elemental make-up of the gemstone from the center to the outer edge…