Featured Snake pendant and glass pendant necklace

I don't know. I do know there has been a huge demand for them in Asia, where they are used for protective purposes, that could be another reason.
In the Islamic world they are known as 'eye of Suleiman aqiq'. An aqiq or akeek is a stone with spiritual significance. The Chinese love them too.

I have some beads, but no cabs. That I know of, I lose track sometimes.

 

I haven't rushed to sell this because it seemed to me bull's eyes were not selling that well. Will have to look again.

 

There is nothing tricky to cut a bullseye, the layers in the rough stone just need to be parallel to start with.

 

Exactly... you can't get the effect by cutting a random part of the stone, as in an uniform stone cab

 

Oooh! A BEAUTY! And a mourning piece! And etruscan revival! All to be desirable

 

Thank you, madame. It is missing the glass cover for the memento compartment. One of the things that came in an English estate lot I bought only for the Ariel cameo.

 

9CT,
Approximately US $382.84
listing ended "because of an error"...

 

Found it was sold on March 2019 for...$110.31

 

The star inset does make it out of the ordinary.

 

That's what I mean.

 

Stunning! Ticks all the right boxes for me.

 

The main thing I see with KSW's cab is the very sharp separation of the white & dark layer & the glaring white of the white by comparison with mine:

 

Yes, it looks too sharp, and the colours seem too 'solid'. I am sure there is a better word for it.

 

The stone cutters had hundreds of pounds of raw material and could pick from the rough which stones would work for the project..... https://www.cooksongold.com/Gemston...nyx-Oval---Cabochon,-20x15mm-prcode-61OX-CW20

 

So, you think this one is stone?

 

It could be,but only testing to see if it is quartz or glass would solve the question.

 

I have one, no snake but banded agate bull's eye

 

Love this one too! Aahhh, mourning and victorian

 

This is glass, probably of the type James Tassie called 'enamel':



The white is opaque to a degree you don't see in chalcedony/agate.

This is glass:



And this is stone:

 

Is there an easy way to do that?