Each stone is cut to a smooth teardrop cabochon and set in a simple silver frame

and a citrine point

Red Tiger Eye is a chatoyant quartz in which the original fibrous crocidolite asbestos has been replaced by quartz through a pseudomorphic process

a tiger eye point

and Aquamarine until formal mineralogical classification in the late 18th century

Sunstone Egg Size:2.1"L x 2.1"W x 2.9"H Each stone is cut toAn egg shaped form cut to show the aventurescence from every direction at once. Sunstone is a feldsparoligoclase or orthoclasecontaining hematite or goethite platelets in parallel layers within the crystal. Light entering the stone scatters off those platelets and returns as a glittering, coppery shimmer: aventurescence. The egg form has no flat facets to interrupt the viewing surface, so the effect plays continuously across the curve as the piece is