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Alex 7x7.jpg Alexander is an original, 2-1/2' foot tall antique bronze eagle by the Famous 19th century French artist Jules Moigniez (Circa 1870). Moigniez's sculptures are acclaimed as being among the finest ever created. Alexander is one of Moigniez's works of art. It is NOT a modern copy or repr...

Here's one of my really rare coins. It's one of only two (2) known in the world graded PF70 Matte by NGC. It's a 1988 1 oz. pure platinum William Tell commemorative Swiss coin. If you'd like to see more of a small sampling of what I have click ---> m I still collect. I love trading (but also accept ...

May I suggest an increase in the JPG size to 100kb ?

This is a very small amount of space and it will allow members to post and/or change their avatars quickly and easily.

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Charles

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Charles

What kind of lighting did you use to photograph the opal in the attached image?

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Charles

What kind of lighting did you use to take these pics?

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Charles

The simple answer is glue. But, they probably bezel set the opals. The bottom of the bezel would have had a flat plate (larger than the diameter of the opal) soldered to it (prior to setting the opal). This would be more than sufficient to keep the opal in place when woven into the rug. I don't know...

Beautiful Opal! Thanks for posting it!

I have to look through some boxes... Then I'll post a some pix of some unusual opals (and other stuff I have). In the meantime I'll post this (terrible) image of a beautiful 5.06ct Opal I have stashed away (somewhere).

Charles

Greetings, I was on YouTube and saw a reference to your group. Naturally I came to your site and registered because Opal is one of my favorite gemstones! I also have a keen interest in coins, edged weapons and other collectibles. For example, I have a bronze eagle made in the 1800's and a Swiss coin...