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Gem and Lapidary Materials - $39.50
For Cutters, Collectors and Jewelers
Gem and Lapidary Materials by June Culp Zeitner
Soft cover, 7" x 10", 347 pages.
Sample page

Gem and Lapidary Materials provides a comprehensive overview of the materials used in the lapidary arts throughout history and up to the present. It is about minerals and rocks as lapidary materials. The descriptions stress how the material looks to the lapidary artist, or jeweler or connoisseur. This is not a book about mineralogy, nor a book about how to cut stones - it is about the materials of lapidary, the art of the ages.

Chapters include Introduction to Gem and Lapidary Materials, The Gems of History, Transparent Faceting Materials, Crystalline Quartz, Cryptocrystalline Quartz: The Agate Family, Quartz: Opaque But Colorful, Quartz: Strange and Wonderful Pseudomorphs, Cabochon Favorites of Yesterday and Today, Cabochon and Carving Materials, Ornamental and Decorative Gem Materials, Phenomenal Gems: Stars and Stripes, Metallic Gem Materials, Organic Gem Materials: Gems fro Life, Rare, Little Known and Unusual Gem Materials, and Gems from the Laboratory and Factory. Appendices provide information on the Refractive Index and Dispersion of Gemstones, Educational Associations, and Topical Publications. A particularly comprehensive bibliography lists several hundred related books and references.


Other websites of interest:
Cabochons
www.greatcabochons.com  -  We have many interesting and unusual designer cabochons on this website!

Rough for Faceting
www.facetingrough.com  -  We have everything from Andalusite to Zircon on our Faceting Rough website!

Rough for Cabbing
www.greatrough.com  -  We have several type of Cabbing Rough on this website!

Slabs for Cabbing and Display
www.greatslabs.com  -  We have a wide assortment of Slabs on this website!

Turquoise Rough
www.turquoiserough.com  -  We have both stabilized and natural turquoise on our Turquoise Rough website!

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