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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1246330, member: 5833"]Yes. I don't often like carved gem stones like this & generally the harder they were to do because of the hardness of the stone, the less I like them. Not sure I have ever seen a carved sapphire I would want, & the rare engraved diamonds I've seen leave me cold. Amethyst is quartz just as chalcedony, the mineral used for most hardstone cameos, is, so not different to work. Sometimes the stone chosen is just too dark to make out what's there & sometimes, when you see it, what's there is meh. This is probably copied from an older engraved gem but I don't know offhand who she is meant to be. Ariadne, Niobe...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 1246330, member: 5833"]Yes. I don't often like carved gem stones like this & generally the harder they were to do because of the hardness of the stone, the less I like them. Not sure I have ever seen a carved sapphire I would want, & the rare engraved diamonds I've seen leave me cold. Amethyst is quartz just as chalcedony, the mineral used for most hardstone cameos, is, so not different to work. Sometimes the stone chosen is just too dark to make out what's there & sometimes, when you see it, what's there is meh. This is probably copied from an older engraved gem but I don't know offhand who she is meant to be. Ariadne, Niobe...[/QUOTE]
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