Featured Opals or?

Would these be opals?
The necklace was so dirty I thought it was base metal but obviously had some age to it so for £1 I'd buy it!. Only when I got it outside into the natural light they have a blue shimmer to them that's really difficult to photograph. It's stamped 925 so a little gem but is going to take a bit of polishing!

 

Lovely, KSW. It looks like moonstone.

 

It's cleaning up beautifully!. What era do you think?

 

Having just googled I think you are spot on ( not that there was any doubt). More crystal looking than opal.

 

Oops. There is a specific era for those slightly globular stones set in a band, but my mind is a total blank. I'm sure the others will come up with the answer.

 

Between the wars: 1920s/30s.

 

And that only took 2 minutes, talk about service.

 

Such an amazing forum although I feel like all I do is take from it as I don't have the knowledge to give yet.....hope you won't get bored with my questions as I haven't even started on what's in my jewellery boxes yet!.

 

Starting to sparkle!

 

You will 'give' in no time.

Never! Bring it on, we love bling!
Wonderful job on the polishing, looks great.

 

Concur with AJ

 

What a find! Im a cheapo to the max,so I love when a find turns out to be something!

 

I'm such a bargain hunter it's part of the fun!. I check out the local charity shops every few weeks to see what I can find. Sometimes it's amazing, like the huge 9k gold earrings in a box of junk I bought for 99p and sometimes it's nothing. Then I love the research, finding out about hallmarks, materials, era and history. Bizarrely, I rarely wear anything other than my grandmothers 30s foil necklaces and her wedding band. My girls age 6 and 9 have a canny eye for anything with a hallmark and are developing a love for the bling!

 

That is wonderful! You can't start young enough.

 

I need some allies as my OH thinks I'm bonkers!

 

Those want to be moonstone, but also want to be white labradorite, a related stone. They're both feldspars. If these are rainbow-y in the sunlight, with those lines in the stone they're probably labradorite. If not, moonstone. It probably doesn't matter if it's going straight into the OP's hoard.

 

@Any Jewelry Are you thinking of "Pool of light" necklaces?

Pool of light pieces usually have round glass orbs, but the metal bands certainly remind me a lot of that style.

KSW, this is a fabulous necklace.

 

I was trying to think of that name too; this isn't that, but it's nice. I was also wondering how old it actually is. It's not dead modern with a spring ring, but ..dunno. It doesn't really "read" 30s.

 

On a quick google labradorite looks to be more blue than these stones- is there a definitive way to know?. As far as value, is one worth more than the other?. OH watched me polishing it last night and said ‘Are you going to sell it?’ I mumbled something about possibly but I love bits like this so much they do just go straight into my little hoard for my girls when they are older.
Obviously I don’t show him my hoard

 

I didn't know the term, but that would be it, thanks.