I mentioned back during the summer (which seems like a few days ago, not weeks ago) that I've been making jewelry. Looking through the Giant Catalog of Beads, Gems, and Stuff You Don't Even Know What It's For But You Want It, I was reminded of the jewelry that my grandfather made when I was a kid.
He didn't string beads, he was a lapidarist. Some of the stones he bought, but some he found himself, and tumbled and set. I used to bring him rocks that I'd pick up in the yard..."Is it a diamond?" "No, it's quartz."...but he'd polish them for me anyway.
I was over at my parents' house this weekend, and my mom told me they had a box of my grandfather's jewelry stuff. I thought she was talking about pliers and jump rings, but when I slid open the drawers of the little organizer, I found stones.
Some were cut into cabochons (the sizes written on the back in pencil, in my grandfather's unmistakable handwriting.) Others were just tumbled and polished. Two had been fitted with bell caps, and I immediately put one on a chain to wear.
Unfortunately, I recognize very few of the stones. I know tiger eye, I think some are jasper, and I'd bet a paycheck that the irregular white rocks are pieces of my quartz.
The others are mysteries. I sold my Geology 100 textbook back as soon as I took the final exam, and though I recall the general idea behind the Mohs scale, I was never very adept at identification anyway. I just took everything to my grandfather, and he'd tell me what I had.
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