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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 84690, member: 301&quot;]<b>Onyx</b> is a banded variety of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicate_mineral" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicate_mineral" rel="nofollow">silicate mineral</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedony" rel="nofollow">chalcedony</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agate" rel="nofollow">Agate</a> and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue).</p><p><br /></p><p>Brazilian green onyx was often used as plinths for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco" rel="nofollow">art deco</a> sculptures created in the 1920s and 1930s. The German sculptor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Preiss" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Preiss" rel="nofollow">Ferdinand Preiss</a> used Brazilian green onyx for the base on the majority of his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryselephantine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chryselephantine" rel="nofollow">chryselephantine</a> sculptures.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx#cite_note-Hickmet-17" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx#cite_note-Hickmet-17" rel="nofollow">[17]</a> Green onyx was also used for trays and pin dishes – produced mainly in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" rel="nofollow">Austria</a> – often with small bronze animal figures attached.</p><p><br /></p><p>But what do i know.....<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie48" alt=":grumpy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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