Aquamarine Multi Gemstone Bead Necklace. The centre bead sexagonal-cut Aquamarine, from Brazil, naturally included and of very good Aquamarine sea-blue colour, is the only Aquamarine in the entire necklace. It is flanked by multi-facetted Brazilian Amethysts of excellent and characteristic lilac colour, two of ten such used throughout this necklace, followed on both sides by more or less matched blocks of natural gemstone colours: Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise first, then Garnet and Tiger Eye and green Malachite, followed by a segment of Ruby pebble, green Peridot, Lapis, Pearl and Amethyst, and so on, all the way to small tubes of Jasper at each end.
A feast of semi-precious gemstones and their characteristic and natural colours, created in Sydney. All the gemstones used in this necklace are real and interesting; the deep blue Lapis Lazuli deserves a special mention, all eighteen such beads having their origin in the harsh high country of north-east Afghanistan, all of deep characteristic ultramarine, and the six tubular beads around the centre being of particularly high colour quality.
The professional stranding, in Sydney, of the above longish Aquamarine Multi Gemstone Bead Necklace, on silk and knotted here and there throughout, is costly, constituting around 10% of the retail price.