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Everyday Life. Enhanced.Vol. 1MobeiCollection
Each Collection features a unique style bringing youthe best in everyday looks. All stones have been handpicked to highlight best texture and colors of eachstone. Each collection includes selection of semi-precious stones, glass, and natural stone such as seashell. Find it all at www.shopMobei.comIn this showcase collections included are: Mobei Woman Main Collection MObei Man, Men's CollectionCityGirlVIP CollectionExecutive Style CollectionMioTrio Collection2forTuesday Collection
AGATE STONEWith colored gemstones it isusually the color that reallydetermines the price but withagates things are a littledifferent. As a rule naturalblues and greens are rarerthan other colors in agatesso they tend to fetch thehigher prices but the mostexpensive gemstones, FireAgates, have a dark bodywith a rainbow of iridescentcolor on display.
The blue agates can be the most expensive with the very rare Ellensburg Agates reaching topprices and Blue Lace and Cellmark Agates also being well valued. Other agates tend to comein a variety of colors in different patterns and it is the combination of bright colors ininteresting patterns that raises the price of these gemstones.
AmethystAmethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO2) andowes its violet color to irradiation, impurities ofiron and in some cases other transition metals,and the presence of other trace elements, whichresult in complex crystal lattice substitutions.[2][3][4] The hardness of the mineral is the same asquartz, thus making it suitable for use in jewelry.Amethyst occurs in primary hues from a light lavender or paleviolet, to a deep purple. Amethyst may exhibit one or bothsecondary hues, red and blue.[5] High quality amethyst can befound in Siberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Far East. Theideal grade is called "Deep Siberian" and has a primary purplehue of around 75–80%, with 15–20% blue and (depending onthe light source) red secondary hues.[6] ‘Rose de France’ isdefined by its markedly light shade of the purple, reminiscent ofa lavender/lilac shade. These pale colors were once consideredundesirable but have recently become popular due to intensivemarketing.[7]
Hematite StonesVarious shapes Luster can range from earthyto submetallic to metallicIt consists mainly of iron, acommon iron oxide compoundA common rock-formingmineral found in sedimentary,metamorphic, and igneousrocks at locations throughoutthe world.
Picture Jasper StonePicture jaspers exhibit combinationsof patterns resulting in what appearto be scenes or images, when seenon a cut section. Such patternsinclude banding from flow ordepositional patterns (from water orwind), as well as dendritic or colorvariations. Diffusion from a centerproduces a distinctive orbicularappearance, i.e., leopard skin jasperor linear banding from a fracture asseen in leisegang jasper. Healed,fragmented rock producesbrecciated (broken) jasper.
JadeColor is jadeite’s most importantvalue factor. Because consumerstraditionally associate jadeite withthe color green, it surprises somepeople to learn that it comes in othercolors as well—lavender, red, orange,yellow, brown, white, black, and gray.All of these colors can be attractive.But jadeite’s most desirable color is,in fact, a very specific shade ofgreen.Jadeite’s transparency ranges from completely opaque to semitransparent. The best jadeite issemitransparent, meaning the text you can read through it would be slightly blurred.The same crystal structure that contributes to jadeite’s texture also contributes to its exceptionaltoughness. Jadeite’s interlocking crystals, also called grains, produce a tightly inter-grown,compact mass that bonds together and resists breaking.
Shell ornaments were very common during the Upper Paleolithic, from 50–40,000years ago onwards, when they spread with modern humans to Europe and Asia.Sea SheelsThe oldest known jewelry in the world consists of two perforated beads made from shells of the sea snailNassarius gibbosulus. These beads were discovered at Skhul in Israel, and were recently dated to between100,000 and 135,000 years ago.[1][2] Similar ornaments (some made from shells of Nassarius kraussianusand the bittersweet clam Glycymeris nummaria as well as from Nassarius gibbosulus) have been discoveredat a number of Middle Paleolithic sites, and are considered a key piece of evidence for the theory that earlyanatomically modern humans in Africa and the Levant were more culturally sophisticated than hadpreviously been thought.
Red CoralPrecious coral or red coral is the common namegiven to Corallium rubrum and several relatedspecies of marine coral. In the trade, Corallium rubrum is sometimesreferred to as "noble coral" and is considered tobe the most desirable type of coral for jewelry.Coral is an organic material and is not anespecially hard or durable gemstone CityGirlVIP Collection
It forms from branching, antler-likestructures created from coral polypsin tropical and subtropical oceanwaters. When the coral polyps die,the hardened skeleton remains, andthis material is what is used as agemstone. Most coral is white, butnature can create coral in severalother colors, including the popularorange to red forms.Green Coral Unlike most other gemstones whichare of mineral origin, Coral isorganic, formed by living organisms.
In recent times, inexpensive shell jewelry is oftenfound at tropical beach destinations, where it isoffered to tourists as informal wear, or as asouvenir. However, shell jewelry has a very ancientpast, and is of great importance in archeology andanthropology. In fact, shell beads are the oldestform of jewelry known, dating back over 100,000years.Natural ShellShell jewelry is jewelry that is primarily madefrom seashells, the shells of marine mollusks.Shell jewelry is a type of shellcraft. One verycommon form of shell jewelry is necklaces thatare composed of large numbers of beads, whereeach individual bead is the whole (but oftendrilled) shell of a small sea snail. Numerousother varieties of shell jewelry are made,including bracelets and earrings.
Today, though a fraction of its original size, theAmerican freshwater pearl industry continues toproduce fine material for the jeweler worldwide.The source of this pearl is the Unio mussel,"fished" by brailing boats and intrepid divers fromthe rivers and lakes of America. From the Unio inwhich it grows, the American freshwater pearlderives its distinctive shapes and colors. A newentry to the American pearl industry is thefreshwater cultured pearl, illustrated in this articlefor the first time ever.PearlsNatural pearls are among the rarest and mostvalued of fine gems. American freshwaterpearls have a history thousands of years oldand played a particularly prominent role in thejewelry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The traditional classification in the West, which goes back to the ancient Greeks, begins with a distinction between preciousand semi-precious; similar distinctions are made in other cultures. In modern use the precious stones are diamond, ruby,sapphire and emerald, with all other gemstones being semi-precious.[4] This distinction reflects the rarity of the respectivestones in ancient times, as well as their quality: all are translucent with fine color in their purest forms, except for the colorlessdiamond, and very hard, with hardnesses of 8 to 10 on the Mohs scale. Other stones are classified by their color, translucency,and hardness. The traditional distinction does not necessarily reflect modern values, for example, while garnets are relativelyinexpensive, a green garnet called tsavorite can be far more valuable than a mid-quality emerald.[5] Another unscientific termfor semi-precious gemstones used in art history and archaeology is hardstone. Use of the terms 'precious' and 'semi-precious'in a commercial context is, arguably, misleading in that it deceptively implies certain stones are intrinsically more valuable thanothers, which is not necessarily the case.OTHER EARTHLY THINGS
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