it's worth more because he gifted it to her the ruby helps too🫀 the heart of it

butterfly means we live forever

Opal from Coober Pedy South Australia not Lightning Ridge

Queen Victoria had a tiara with opals. Her daughter in law queen Alexandra was superstitious about them and replaced them with rubies. The queen mum often wore it. perhaps Kate or Camilla will wear it since the queen didn't much after she got it back.

Absolutely! The role is made for him!🤣

I don't know....is this appraiser a bitter old man who doesn't like people who vote for republicans? Cuz Deniro sure is.

@@chairmanofthebored8684 Had to look him up. Certainly looks the part

Buddy sounds like he spent some time as a geologist for the mafia. When he started talking about bad luck, I thought the other guy was about to get whacked.

@@chairmanofthebored8684 I thought I was watching a documentary. I've heard tell the biogenic silica hustle is a messy business.

I hope you get your wish dear!

This is white opal

@@biosparkles9442 don't think he was making a statement about the piece, pretty sure he was referring to the type of opal they would like. Smh

I have a few and wear them on my wool winter coat each year. I'm relatively young, too! You see it more often in the UK than in the U.S. where I live atm.

@@cornishpasty4344 yep must be an English thing as I’ve worn brooches on my coats from a young age. I literally remember wearing a fur coat to school with a Pearl brooch when I was about 8 🙈

If I had HER broaches, I’d wear them too!!!

Lesson learned

I met an Australian girl who had the most beautiful Black Opal pendant it was a 21st Birthday Present from her parents I have never seen anything as gorgeous

Probably fake

You can get opal triplet rings that are covered with quartz and are more durable for everyday wear :D

Then it was not a real solid stone, when you purchase an opal from a reputable place they should always advise never to wear the stone while doing the dishes. But doing the dishes a couple of times wont hurt any opal, it’s a life time of doing the dishes that will eventually cause damage to the stone, discolouring, cracking, etc. most likely your stone was a doublet or triplet, a stone made up of several pieces glued together, the dishwater has effected the glue making the stone go grey or dark. Opal is about the same hardness as glass, it can be broken, or cracked, but doing the dishes a couple of times wont hurt it, not unless you put your hands in boiling dish water.

Well, send him a copy of this clip and ask him.

Justin is fab ! I've wayched a lot of his videos. Best bit is when he gets so exited he does the Haka ! 💎❣️🙆🕺🤸‍♂️ 🤣 About the brooch, I think there were two stones wich were split lenghtwise. Thus the wings mirror each other. The ruby body stone and the eyes bring out the slightest pink hue of the upper wings. That's very clever. Very Victorian...🦋 Love from Norway 🇳🇴

Lightning ridge isn't all black

Definitely has the appearance of Cobber Peady opal to me 👍

It’s lightning ridge My husband has mined there over 40 years

@@nowirehangers2815 You are probably right because opal mining in Coober Peady really didn't kick off until 1915 which doesn't correspond to the era this beautiful piece was produced.

@@timmanning5357 thanks Tim!

I was gonna say that! Lucky wife!

Yes he was....😉 😉

Women are fickle

She'll love it now lol

His wife didn’t say anything negative! He just said she thought he paid up to $1000.

@@ThatOpalGuy Much less fickle than men are for sure. A woman almost always stays with her injured or disabled partner. Less than half of men do. I’m a part of the blind community and it’s shocking how many men dump their wives when they lose their sight.

They actually lose their colors if being worn too often and getting bleached by uv.

on the Moh's scale of hardness... have you checked...I have... I have about 10 tonnes of rocks around my house and yard... several opal deposits... as well as diamond and ruby with which to check... when I was out looking for opal in the deserts here in the southwest US I was also cutting for a Lightning Ridge miner... all my Lightning Ridge material is put away at the moment... all... all of my Ethiopian and Indonesian, and at least 3 deposits of precious opal here in Arizona and New Mexico where I mine... cannot be scratched by a diamond... which means they are the same hardness... start at the top and try to scratch the sample with a known diamond... probably not this one though.... please 🙏 .. took me a long time to figure out... I read all the books too... I'm actually a geologist... but I have a broad background in the physical sciences... my dad was a nuclear engineer and physicist... I thought I had a chemical path to explain precious opal with all my book learning... a friend from MIT went over it with me for a year... he's a champion question asker.. I wasn't asking the right questions... I assumed I knew things... because I read them in a book... turns out the books are wrong... it's taken another 10 years of research and... I'm actually still working on it... after 60 years of effort.. it's probably not a hobby, eh? I'll keep you posted ✌️ that's a stunning piece of jewelry

don't start with a piece of quartz... please... or... try to scratch the piece of quartz with a known diamond... the Moh's scale is a relative hardness scale... talc is 1.. you can scratch it with a fingernail your fingernail is 2.5... so is.999 fine gold 3 is copper... called number one copper 4 is iron... like cast iron 5 is tool steel 5.5 is glass 6 is plageoclase feldspar... labradorite 7.. is supposed to be quartz... 8... topaz 9.. sapphire and ruby 10... diamond... scratch means about the same effort as writing with a pencil you cannot fake hardness but if you don't check... you don't know

tonnes of quartz... laying all over the desert around my house... it is also 10... I checked... more than once ✌️

desde la Sierra Estrella 🌟 en Arizona mi casa es su casa ✌️

Cos the opal was very average. Surprised at the valuation being so high