United States Silversmiths & Goldsmiths

United States Silversmiths & Goldsmiths

Arizona

Maine

Montana

Handling Gemstones
You need to know how to handle and care for your gemstones as much as you can to have the least amount of damage happen

Inclusions and Optial Phenomena
Much of the beauty of demstones is due to the way they react when light shines on them.

Beads, drops and briolettes
Beads have enormous versatility. Along with faceted briolettes and pendeloques (plain drops), they can be incorporated

Feldspar
Despite being the most common rock-forming minerals at the earth's surface, the stones in the feldspar species give

Sapphire
Sapphies are more abundant than ruby because its colouring agents (impurities) are more common than those of ruby.

Amber
It is easy to see why amber, once called the gold of the north, was so highly prized. Remove the crusty, weathered

Iolite (cordierite or dichroite)
What most people don't realize is that top-quality iolite rivals the best tanzanite in both colour and saturation. If