The R. Ballard collection
by Neural on Mar.31, 2010, under Opals
The stones below are grey base Lambina opal. 3 of them are from the same piece of rough. All of them were cut from rough that a friend of mine, whom the collection is named for, gave me when I was just a newbie opal cutter.
The back of 0186L shows a little angling that I need to correct, but will do that by hand as it is delicate work.
0186L is 18mm x 13mm x 3mm, and 4.65c skin to skin fire, predominantly red and green. If this isn’t at least a 4 on the brightness scale, I would be shocked. I don’t photograph opals to well, and, as with some previous ones, this one refuses to photograph badly.
0183L
0184L
0185L
0186L
0186L_back
