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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 235186, member: 2844"]Looks like it is a triplet, three layers. A black base, then a slice of opal, and on top clear quartz to protect the opal slice. A triplet has a slightly domed top.</p><p>A doublet is the same without the quartz layer, a flat top, but a clearer view of the opal.</p><p>What you see at the back is the black base. Black enhances the colours of the opal, which is slightly translucent.</p><p>With a solid opal the back would look like opal as well, or as natural potch, the stone the opal has formed on. Here is a photo of the back of an opal with white potch, you can still see the opal:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]71147[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 235186, member: 2844"]Looks like it is a triplet, three layers. A black base, then a slice of opal, and on top clear quartz to protect the opal slice. A triplet has a slightly domed top. A doublet is the same without the quartz layer, a flat top, but a clearer view of the opal. What you see at the back is the black base. Black enhances the colours of the opal, which is slightly translucent. With a solid opal the back would look like opal as well, or as natural potch, the stone the opal has formed on. Here is a photo of the back of an opal with white potch, you can still see the opal: [ATTACH=full]71147[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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