All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for August 2019!

Here are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for August 2019:

This Month's Special:  

http://www.allthatglitters.co/Monthly_Special.htm

Visit our Monthly Special Page to Learn More…

This Month’s Gem News:   Colorblocking:  The Art and Fashion of Multicolor Gemstones

http://www.allthatglitters.co/Monthly_News.htm

“Clothes, handbags, shoes and accessories that sport multiple solid colors, usually in bold and bright shades called colorblocking, have reappeared on the fashion scene in a big way the last few years, but the trend is not new...…”

Read More and See How Multiple Colors Can Be Found In Natural Gemstones… 

Newly Faceted or Newly Photographed Gemstones: 

http://www.allthatglitters.co/Photos_New.htm

We have a few more Ametrines recently finished by two different cutters (from our special rough!) and they include:

   32+ct Cut in attractive design called the Stone Saver

   Almost 26ct Checker Board Oval

   25.23ct Shield

   33+ct Triangle (grooved/flat faceted – specialty cutting; have received over 2000 likes on line, posted by others)

   30.30ct Kite-like shape with both flat faceting and grooving! (again posted by others and tons of likes!)

A Blue Flash Amethyst in a Diamond Shape weighing 15.97cts is just back, as well as a 13.92ct Shield.

3 nicely faceted gems from one of our newest and youngest cutters:  5+ct Hexagonal Aquamarine, 4+ct Spear Shaped African Garnet and a Kite Shaped Blue Flash Amethyst weighing 16.16cts.

Three beautiful pieces of included quartz, with green star-like crystal formations – some of these seem to have been dusted with another white and beige mineral!  (priced to move as a group – they are all different and fascinating)

Two incredibly beautiful, intricate 18kt White Gold Rings have been custom created and are described below:

   GIA Certed Pad surrounded by Diamonds,flanked by Glowing Blue Sapphires/Pad-like Sapphires in 18kt White Gold

   Montana Sapphire surrounded by White Sapphire and Matching Blue Sapphire Melee in 18kt White Gold 

GIA Recently Certed Fine Gems:

   Alexandrite – Brasilian 

   Color Change Garnet – large, changing from various greens to various purples -  super colors under more than one source!

   Ruby – 1.25ct described as a Purplish Red

   Sapphire - unique pink/salmon depending on available lights/wavelengths

Fancy Uniquely Colored Small Garnets are back from the cutters (no photos currently as it is very difficult to capture the true color of these pieces.  Contact us if interested.)

Large,  just under 7ct U.S. Faceted, Mint Merelani Garnet

Montana Sapphire, bluish green to green in color, elongated emerald cut, faceted in the U.S.

Quartz - Included      

Sapphire –Green (2), Purple (2), Neony Bubble Gum Pink (Certed), Montana Sapphire, Parti-Colored Slice

Spinel – large purply blue or bluish purple (Madagascar Origin; on hold, but available in a month or so)

Spinel - unique reddish orange from Vietnam

Topaz – large wonderful orangy sherry color (unheated)

Specimens include:

Agate – Cube from Russia (beautiful and a must see! – West Coast Office only and not available until the end of the year)

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

Antiquities:

Carnelian Seal – wonderful chariot scene with Greek Aegean Star (possibly a former pendant)

Agate Cylinder Seal  - one of the largest we have ever seen with incredible well designed/incised hunting scene - Important!

Roman Seal (Hercules) – believe to be clear/grey Agate and could have originally been in a ring

Roman Bronze depicting what looks like an athlete possibly in a shot put competition (said to be Cupid)

           

TAX FREE HOLIDAY for Massachusetts Residents:

Saturday and Sunday, August 17^th and 18^th, no tax on items below a certain value!  That is the weekend to make your purchase for those items you’ve had your eye on….