All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for March 2019!
Here
are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for March 2019:
This Month's Special:
This Month's Gem News:
Newly Faceted or Newly Photographed Gemstones:
Numerous
items will be available on our Newly Photographed Page as soon as we obtain
decent photos and create the necessary text and coding.
So
far, we believe all the gems were uploaded and are online as of recently.
Expect
to see the following:
Alexandrite
– Brasilian
Two
Ametrines are back from our cutters, with one have a ‘double bubble’ created in
the very center
Andalusite
– small old parcel with good color
Garnet
– large color shifting from various greens to various purples and super colors
under more than one source!
Quartz
- Included
Sapphire
– unique orange or salmon, green (2), purple (2), bubble gum pink, Montana
Sapphire, Parti-Colored Slice
Spinel
– purply blue (Madagascar), unique reddish orange from Vietnam
Topaz
– large wonderful orangy sherry color
Tourmaline
– Trapiche from Zambia
Tsavorite
– super glowing green large round
Zircon
– Deep Blue
Specimens
include:
Agate
– Cube from Russia (beautiful and a must see!)
Meteorite
– 5mm etched cube weighing 998 grams (essentially 1 kilogram, 2.25 lbs!)
Skarn
– Fantastic natural skarn framed slab from Russia (40 yo find); looks like a
drawing or sketch!
Tourmaline,
1 crystal and one terminated quartz with green/blue tourmaline
crystals/segments
Rough
– Behind the scenes and to be cut in the future:
Color
Shift/Change Garnets – unique colors
Aquamarine
Mint
Merelani Garnet
Large
Unique Grossular Garnets, slight color shift
Montana
Sapphire (greenish)
Antiquities:
Carnelian
Seal – wonderful chariot scene
Agate
Cylinder Seal - one of the largest we
have ever seen with incredible well designed/incised scene!
Roman
Seal (Hercules) – probably Agate and could have originally been in a ring
Roman
Bronze depicting what looks like an athlete possibly in a shot put competition
Buy Now and Intent to Purchase Buttons:
We
hope to be changing our website in the future so one can just click on a button
near an item of interest to make the purchase. With so much inventory and
hundreds of pages to change/modify or create from scratch, we still may be a
few years from that goal. However, as an initial test and so people don’t
have to scroll down the page to find our PayPal or Intent to Purchase links, we
have added two quick features on one page – the Newly Photographed Page.
One will find two buttons under items which will allow payment via PayPal or
access to our Intent to Purchase Form in the vicinity of items for sale.
You will still have to enter certain information as you would on those
individual links, but it is more convenient and we wanted to see if our
customers would be using them. So click away and make your purchases!
Gemstones in Cutting:
We have two large 100ct Oregon Sunstones that will be carved
and/or cut by the multi-award winning cutter, Dalan Hargrave. Dalan has
reached out to us recently to indicate his thoughts on how he would approach
the cutting of each piece, and we hope that these pieces will be as beautiful
as his past pieces – many destined to be in major collections and
museums. We gave him the thumbs up to begin working his magic, and some
of his pieces are indeed magical! We are currently awaiting the
results.
A few pieces of new rough will
be given to a different cutter we have used in the past, and that might include
the Aqua, Mint Merelani Garnet, Unique Color Shifting Garnet and a large
Shifting Orangy Garnet, as well as the greenish Montana Sapphire.
The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show:
Many of the prices we saw in the wholesale shows this year
continue to be much higher that the All That Glitters website prices. We are still considering exhibiting
there next year and moving out a large volume of our inventory. We last displayed there in about 1990.
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