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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9532336, member: 5833&quot;]In my mineral guide, variscite is in a section of stones mainly of interest to collectors and rarely used in jewellery.&nbsp; It is even softer than turquoise &amp; has perfect cleavage; both features would make it more vulnerable to damage than turquoise is.&nbsp; Relatively rare, I don&#039;t know whether Victorian era jewellers would ever have heard of it, much less used it in their work.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, turquoise had been popular since at least the Georgian period.&nbsp; This strikes me as being in the vein of brooches showing off a pretty &amp; interesting mineral specimen, like the bull&#039;s eye agates &amp; slices of fossil bed that got made into pins.&nbsp; Size of yours?&nbsp; Less than 2 fingers?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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