Good morning Dears,
Since a few I fall in love with lapidary especially with welo opal since I could find nice rough to work with at a reasonable price for a young guy.
To recover at least part of the expenses I was thinking to sell some of the best cab I got.
Here the doubt concerning how should I sell them: wet or dry?
The issue stands in the fact that some of the specimens show and extremely good play of colour but just when they are wet. Differently, once they got dry they become milky highlighting their play of colours just under white light.
The doubt stands in the fact that if someone would buy it for jewelry would get something that once get dry start turning milky, differently a collector could keep it humid preserving its amazing colours.
Obviously, the ct weight has to be scaled with dry stones.
Many thanks in advance to everyone who could help me!
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Following with the same question.
I’m interested to see answers to this, I don’t know myself. I am curious, do opals typically permanently change in appearance when exposed to water for long periods of time? In other words, is it generally wise to avoid displaying in water (if not already exposed to it) for that reason? If there is permanent change, there any way to restore the earlier play of colors (through polishing or some other treatment).
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I am not a pro, but I like opals and have a few that I bought in water and you are so right, they look way better submerged.
They have to be dried very slowly to dosplay well outside of water i do know that. I was reading about a year long method in a ziploc bag. I got mine as dry. Yea
They shoned more in the water byt that was to get acluding materials off of the stone. I was worried about what it was going to do to the clarity but luckily for me they look just as beautiful dry and clean as they did wet.
That said i still do not know if i got really lucky or if dry opal can safely get wet again.