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china
22-02-2016, 01:53 PM
Hi trying to find a genuine piece of cairngorm amberish colour 30mm x 15mm x 10mm rough for
mounting to the top of a Skin Duhb

CJ57
22-02-2016, 02:23 PM
Hi China
This is the link to your request last year, I think it's still the same
http://www.cooksongold.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6813&highlight=Cairngorm

china
23-02-2016, 09:44 AM
Yes I did post a request last year, I was just hoping something may come up, seems like a it is a impossible task I will have to substitute something else, is any one aware of any other uniquely Scottish stones I may be able to use.

Lucie
23-02-2016, 10:42 AM
Just did a few random searches. Have you tried phoning around any of this lot?
http://www.alistirtaitgem.co.uk/#!cairngorms/c1xh6
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/250774535/large-28-smoky-quartz-sphere-natural?ref=market
http://www.thecuriousgem.co.uk/
http://www.scottishagates.co.uk/

CJ57
23-02-2016, 10:44 AM
The only uniquely Scottish stones I know of are probably from the Scottish agates link on that post, they had some nice stones if I remember.The only other option would be to look for an antique piece of jewellery online and reuse a stone which wouldn't be the size you want and would probably be a smoky Quartz. On our lapidary excursions when I was a student we only ever found agates, there are some spectacular ones but cairngorm is a touristy thing.
Good luck:)

china
23-02-2016, 01:40 PM
Thanks for all the replies and helpful suggestions, however the quest has been solved, I was telling my friend Kym about it and he went out into his
band practice room and produced a damaged Plaid Brooch with a large Cairngorm in the center that I can have re-cut,( I don't do Faceting ) so all has worked
out well

LydiaNiz
23-02-2016, 10:01 PM
this is weird! I made two Skin Dubh design tie pins earlier this year - the chap had picked up some bloodstone on a Scottish island which we got cut into cabs - looks from reading up that local supplies of the cairngorm quartz is pretty much depleted and imported stock is being used.

CJ57
23-02-2016, 10:18 PM
You might want to read this Lydia from China's original post last year. Http://gemologyonline.com/Forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6514 . I haven't known of Cairngorm coming from the Cairngorms. All the info given in the post linked to above pretty well still stands. Many, many agates but you'd be looking at Victorian jewellery for a Cairngorm and most jewellery produced in Scotland for tourists nowadays uses amethyst or when I've looked at the kilt companies today you can have a stone colour to match your kilt, even red, blue or green :) nae taste!

CJ57
24-02-2016, 03:10 PM
This is quite a good article and quite definitive I would think in its information on all stones Scottish http://www.curriehj.freeserve.co.uk/grampian.htm

china
25-02-2016, 02:25 PM
quite a informative article