This pendant and earring set is made with 14K gold filled wire
The pendant has a 10mm amethyst mounted in a gold filled snapset. The earrings each have a
6mm amethyst set in a gold filled snapset. The finished pendant is about 2 5/8" high by 1"
wide and the earrings are about 1 3/4" high by 1" wide.

I must admit I am a little partial to Amethyst, because of its color. However, the most
beautiful of all crystal quartzes also posed one or two riddles for the scientists, and
indeed they still haven't been completely solved to this day. The amethyst has its
hardness (7), its moderate refraction and its weight in common with the other quartzes,
but the crystal structure is different, and it is most unconventional. The construction
is stratified, as a result of which areas and lamellae of varying colour intensity often
come about. This explains why there are relatively few large cut amethysts of an evenly
distributed dark colour, in spite of its having been found so abundantly in all parts of
the world. It is only in the last few years that scientists have been fairly certain of
having found the real cause of the colour. It is now attributed to certain iron constituents
in connection with natural radioactive radiation.

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