Chalcedony

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	Stone : Blue Chalcedony Colour : Blue Item : #1701 Cut By : Doug Menadue, 2022 Design : Flower From Heaven Origin : Turkey Treatments : None Weight : 14.57 Carats Size : 16.82X16.79X7.45mm Clarity : Opaque Price : PRICE ON REQUEST I do love working with this blue chalcedony from Turkey. It has a very distinctive blue hue and translucency to it which I really enjoy. It is very nice stone to carve with a wonderful feel, a certain softness yet very tough. One of my personal touchstones in life is to create the beauty you want to see in the world and with this I hope I had done so even if only in a small, small way. THIS BEAUTIFUL CARVING HAS BEEN SET AS A PENDANT, SEE IT HERE.


	Stone : Chalcedony Colour : Blue Item : #1615 Cut By : Doug Menadue, 2021 Design : Scholar's Stone Origin : Turkey Treatments : None Weight : 115.5 Carats Clarity : Eye Clean Translucent Size : 40X44X17mm Price : PRICE ON REQUEST I do love the soft pastel blue hue of Turkish blue chalcedony, it is something quite lovely to behold. When carved in this style it really seems to accentuate the stone's glow and translucency. This is a very fine piece of chalcedony which, as I began carving it, brought to mind those striking naturally shaped and weathered stones that came from certain areas in China and were traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars. These scholar's stones were also known as Lingbi stones. So I decided to lean into that idea and tried to capture a feel of steep wind-swept mountains.


	Stone : Chalcedony Colour : Blue Item : #1601 Cut By : Doug Menadue, 2021 Design : Hydrangeas Origin : Turkey Treatments : None Weight : 99.15 Carats Clarity : Eye Clean Translucent Size : 32X32X16mm Price : PRICE ON REQUEST This fine piece of Turkish Blue Chalcedony was just the perfect colour for carving a bloom of hydrangeas. It was a challenging piece to carve but very enjoyable at the same time. I've always been fond of hydrangeas and their big beautiful blooms are just wonderful, there are some in the garden now. This carving could be worked into a brooch or another feature piece of jewellery. The blue chalcedony from Turkey is considered to be among the best of it's type in the world and it has a soft gentle translucent glowing quality about it.

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Stone : Chalcedony Green Chrome Bearing
Cut By : Doug Menadue, 2008
Item : #67
Design : Lazy Oval Dome
Origin : Western Australia
Treatments : None
Weight : 5.3 carats
Clarity : Eye Clean, Translucent
Size : 14mm X 11mm X 4.5mm
Price : SOLD

Comments : For a change of pace I decided to try faceting some green chalcedony that I've got. Usually this material is cut as a cabochon but I wanted to try something a little different to see how it turned out. This material was sold to me as untreated. It is a lovely green with good translucence.

* Recently on the gemology forum that I subscribe to, a fellow member stated that he also had bought a parcel of green chalcedony from Western Australia. He had sample stones tested by the GIA laboratory in Bangkok and they determined the stone to be natural and untreated chrome-bearing chalcedony. Pictures of the stone match with the material I have in colour and appearance. The chrome content makes the green quite vibrant. This, coupled with good translucence makes this stone quite special.

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