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Author: Fred Ward
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780963372383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the latest in the popular Fred Ward Gem Book Series. The full-color photographs give the buyer and enthusiast all the information needed to understand the various types of opals and the ability to buy them wisely.
Author: Stephen Aracic
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780959583021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Cody
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780646016146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan W. Eckert
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1997-10-02
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780471133971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders will find fascinating details about the discovery, whereabouts, and value of famous opals, from such classic specimens as the Burning of Troy Opal to the Bonanza Opal and other more recent discoveries. Finally, the book surveys today's major opal-producing areas and provides current information on opal occurrence worldwide. Punctuating the text are useful tables, extensive glossaries of opal types and opal-related terms, and beautiful photographs that capture the essence and mystery of this most exquisite stone.
Author: Katharine Susannah Prichard
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Renee Bernard
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-12-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1101613297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarius Thorne has learned to use his wit and intelligence to strategize a better life for himself. He is the White Knight amidst the small secret circle of Gentlemen known only as the Jaded. The handsome scholar shields his heart by keeping a studied distance from the world…until he rescues a beautiful woman. Isabel Netherton isn’t merely a damsel in distress. A high born lady of quality unwilling to be a pawn, she is defiantly escaping an abusive husband. But under Darius’s protection she discovers an unexpected champion--a man who teaches her the power of true desire and what it means to be treated like a queen. However, the law of the land supports her husband’s cruel claim. It will take all of Darius' wit to keep one step ahead of their enemies and protect Isabel. In a deadly game of chess, Darius must defeat the Black Knight and sacrifice himself for his Ivory Queen or forfeit all.
Author: Paul B.. Downing
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew edition with added chapters and sections. Provides all the information necessary for complete analysis and evaluation of any opal from a true gem. Properly identify opals from all over the world and what characteristics affect value. Breathtaking color photos throughout.
Author: Walter Scott
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Published: 1829
Total Pages: 310
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul B. Downing
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Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 9780962531149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProven step-by-step approach to cutting opal. Easy-to-use guide that takes the beginner through the first stone to advanced cutting techniques, including doublet and triplet making.
Author: Janet Clifford
Publisher: Lithographie LLC
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780979099809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrecious opal is a rainbow made tangible. Its spectral blaze of color moves, changes, intensifies, fades, or disappears with the slightest change in perspective. Opal?s intriguing play of color and unique atomic arrangement has made it the subject of scientific probing from early optics in the 1850s to high tech photonics today. Equally challenging has been discovering opal?s place in history. Its beauty begs to be enshrined in myth and legend when facts are as scarce as the stone itself.Opal, both precious and common, is found in disparate environments from the unbearable heat of the Australian outback to the higher elevations of the Canadian Rockies, from a centuries old site in Slovakia to a number of little known places in the American west. A unique assortment of characters collect and mine this equally individual stone, of which no two are exactly alike.This blazing gem of chemical simplicity?just silica and water?has ignited a complexity of human emotions: a compulsion to mine, the desire to wear, an urge to fashion, the challenge to imitate, a need to possess. A natural, wearable stone with magical depth, movement, and color, opal is a truly phenomenal gemstone.
