2 Aug 2016
15 Jun 2016
Scottish Vows Awards 2016
Daniel Henderson Jewellers is excited to announce their entry on the prestigious SCOTTISH VOWS AWARDS 2016.
The Scottish VOWS Awards' mission is to find businesses who help brides and grooms to make their special day, extra special. Businesses who put their clients in the spotlight.
The best part of the awards is that is down to the 'happy couples' to vote directly and support their favourite suppliers.
And even better still, by taking part on it, you will be automatically entered into a fantastic prize draw to win a romantic break for two. So everybody is a winner!!
Just click on the link, look for us Daniel Henderson Jewellers, and answer the five short questions. Note that voting closes in September.
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Brides and grooms, who have gone the extra mile for your wedding day?!
10 Jun 2016
June Jewels
Symbols
Alexandrite shares its status as a June birthstone with cultured pearl and moonstone.
The gemstone has been thought to bring luck, good fortune, and love. It is also said to strengthen intuition, creativity, and imagination and encourages romance.
Alexandrite’s dramatic colour change is described as “emerald by day, ruby by night”, the phenomenon itself is often called “the alexandrite effect”.
The jewel is the very rare colour change variety of the mineral chrysoberyl. However, the striking colour change doesn’t arise from the gem’s pleochroism, but rather from the mineral’s unusual light-absorbing properties.
Its origins date back to 1934 in Russia’s Ural Mountains near the Tokovaya River. The gem was named after the young Alexander II (1818-1881) and it caught the country’s attention because its red and green colours which mirrored the Imperial Russian flag and so it became the national stone of tsarist Russia.
The original source in Russia's Ural Mountains has long since closed after producing for only a few decades and only a few stones can be found on the market today. However, in 1987, a new find of alexandrite was made in Brazil at a locality called Hematita. Other places where it’s found is Sri Lanka and East Africa.
The newer deposits contain some fine-quality stones, but many displays less-precise colour change and muddier hues than the nineteenth-century Russian alexandrites.
The prices
The value of Alexandrite varies depending on the size and quality of the gemstone. The most important factors are the strength of the color change, color saturation under varying lighting conditions, clarity and size. Alexandrites with a strong color change are very valuable and clean stones over 1 carat are very rare.
When evaluating alexandrite, pay the most attention to the color change: the more dramatic and complete the shift from red to green, without the bleeding through of brown from one color to the next, the rarer and valuable the stone.
The greatest alexandrite specimen ever found is housed in Moscow's Fersman Mineralogical Museum.
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