So pretty! I just love opals.
I have one of these and it's magic. How are you planning to set it?
Not familiar with the term "water" Opal, however, this is a great jelly Opal!
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I'm always so nervous buying opals online, not knowing what it'll look like in regular daylight. My water/jelly opal looks a lot like this both online and in person so crossing fingers yours will as well! If you do go for a ring/be able to see it, just get a chunkier or bezel setting perhaps to protect it?
is it here yet?
probably not a good week to be waiting for a package
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Fingers crossed for today
It doesn't look like it's even been shipped yet.![]()
It's here and here are a couple of my attempts to get color to show up in it. In real life, it mostly just looks clear-ish without color or only vague color, not the vivid colors showing up in the vendor's photos. I was wondering why it was only listed as "AA" quality when it looked so colorful in the pics.
Also, it just came in a little plastic bag along with two freebie gems that look like harder stones than the opal. In other words, there was nothing protecting the opal from the other two stones. Correction: there was a lot of bubble wrap around the whole baggie at least but I'm still surprised the opal didn't arrive damaged from the other two stones.
Will probably return it or maybe upgrade, if there's something I like, after further discussion with vendor. I should probably start buying gems in person only but it's a lot harder to get to them that way!
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It's here and here are a couple of my attempts to get color to show up in it. In real life, it mostly just looks clear-ish without color or only vague color, not the vivid colors showing up in the vendor's photos. I was wondering why it was only listed as "AA" quality when it looked so colorful in the pics.
Also, it just came in a little plastic bag along with two freebie gems that look like harder stones than the opal. In other words, there was nothing protecting the opal from the other two stones. Correction: there was a lot of bubble wrap around the whole baggie at least but I'm still surprised the opal didn't arrive damaged from the other two stones.
Will probably return it or maybe upgrade, if there's something I like, after further discussion with vendor. I should probably start buying gems in person only but it's a lot harder to get to them that way!
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I'd move on and forget this vendor.
This was on sale for almost $100 a carat, right?
So many better Welo Opals in that price range and less (I take it this is a Welo Opal) out there by leaps ands bounds. This, $10 a carat by its self and less than that in a parcel of Opals.
I don't mean to be rude. I just don't like seeing people get taken.
I'd move on and forget this vendor.
This was on sale for almost $100 a carat, right?
So many better Welo Opals in that price range and less (I take it this is a Welo Opal) out there by leaps ands bounds. This, $10 a carat by its self and less than that in a parcel of Opals.
I don't mean to be rude. I just don't like seeing people get taken.
It's here and here are a couple of my attempts to get color to show up in it. In real life, it mostly just looks clear-ish without color or only vague color, not the vivid colors showing up in the vendor's photos. I was wondering why it was only listed as "AA" quality when it looked so colorful in the pics.
Also, it just came in a little plastic bag along with two freebie gems that look like harder stones than the opal. In other words, there was nothing protecting the opal from the other two stones. Correction: there was a lot of bubble wrap around the whole baggie at least but I'm still surprised the opal didn't arrive damaged from the other two stones.
Will probably return it or maybe upgrade, if there's something I like, after further discussion with vendor. I should probably start buying gems in person only but it's a lot harder to get to them that way!
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@fredflintstone , can you suggest good opal vendors, especially of Ethiopian opal? Or is there a thread I missed about what to look for and who sells it?