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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 10658774, member: 79705&quot;]Ditto to what [USER=36]@evelyb30[/USER] said. It&#039;s the shells being soaked.... They were born of water! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /> That said, Whitby so called &quot;hard&quot; jet is totally fine. There is a &quot;soft&quot; jet in Europe that people think came from fresh water instead of sea water and it can crack over time. Any antique pieces would probably already show that stress though.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the glue...it can always be re-glued and if it separates from the soak I&#039;m gonna assume it wasn&#039;t long for this world anyway and at least it came apart in a controlled way and not walking around town lol. They used a lot of animal glues in Cameo construction which become brittle eventually. Jet has a mixture glue that seems tough as hell.... I&#039;ll have to look up the exact composition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone looking for really good online Jet info should read the <a href="https://whatiswhitbyjet.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://whatiswhitbyjet.com/" rel="nofollow">Ebor Jet Works blog posts</a>. They are super interesting and very informative for recognizing jet from other imitations, what jet is, how to care for it, etc. It&#039;s run by a jeweler who&#039;s a jet scientist. Her YouTube videos are interesting too. It&#039;s a great compliment to Helen Muller&#039;s book(s).</p><p><br /></p><p>I really need to make a post about the very small jet selection I&#039;ve picked up. I got really into it after picking up an all jet cameo...of course. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They usually used cameos sparingly as the focal point...probably because they had to buy the shell ones from an Italian...and all-jet ones were tine consuming and a master level work. Necklaces might have multiples, but one big and the others smaller. I would guess a bracelet because they were worn in matching pairs on each arm so maybe night was on the other. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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