Featured Stone Bead ID please

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by KSW, Feb 14, 2022.

  1. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Any suggestions as to what these could be please?
    Mary Contrary gem tester says Jadeite, Nephrite or Tourmaline for the brown but I don’t trust her as that’s her stock answer when she is clueless.
    The blue I think are dyed quartz?
    Could the cubes be unusually cut carnelian? The cubes are 9mm square. Nicely polished and quite tactile.
    Thanks for looking :)

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  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    The square ones look like dyed agate, and carnelian is pretty much unbanded agate so close enough. The other looks like a really low-grade aquamarine bead, but it's hard to say from here.
     
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  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Funnily enough, Mary did suggest Aquamarine and I discounted it but maybe she was right?
    Thanks Ruth :)
     
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  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Certainly possible. I've seem similar ones before, and they do make beads from opaque aquamarine. The grad Z stuff.
     
  5. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Could well be, the colour isn’t far off!
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