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Can anyone tell by these crappy photos what kind of opals these are? The pictures don't show how much red color play they have.

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These don't seem to fit any one criteria of opal.
 

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They look like typical commercial Welo(Ethiopian) to me.
The first looked like dyed or smoked Welo, the second look like lesser quality Welo.
 
Too blurry.
 
Were these photos taken during a break-in? :cool2:

I assume that they are not yours -- why take photos in the dark?
 
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Were these photos taken during a break-in? :cool2:

I assume that they are not yours -- why take photos in the dark?

Lack of power ATM but good guess.
 
These look like lab opals

I guess you really can't go by feel..I had a matrix opal that felt like plastic and it turned out to be genuine...these feel like stones and they are lab made...
 
Just based on these pictures, these look like foil-backed opaline glass to me. It’s an older type of opal simulant.
 
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