The UK is a fairly humid, wet country, and we have many jewellers and other craftsmen and craftswomen who work in sheds or home workshops. A question was asked in the Society of British Jewellers facebook group recently by a lady whose tools have gone rusty due to a...
Pyrite is a mineral common to many mineral collections and to collectors – otherwise known as ‘iron pyrite’ or ‘fools gold’, due to an occasional superficial appearance to gold. The unusual crystal formations of many Pyrite specimens make...
I’m sure some of you, if you’re familiar with me and my business, will know I have a little collection of just… bad fakes. Some of the inventive things created to make a fake mineral or gemstone – half the time of a material so cheap it...
I’ve been asked for a recommendation on a few books recently, and decided it was high time I actually wrote a post on the subject. It should be made clear that this is not in any way a comprehensive list of every book you should buy, and that I have not read...
A quick post showing a few common repairs to fossilised teeth – in this case, Otodus teeth from Morocco, which are commonly restored/repaired. I have used Otodus teeth as an example here as I have a few hundred in stock to pick out some obviously repaired...
