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Peridot Jewellery
The vivid and slightly golden shimmering green of Peridot is thought to be the ideal gemstone colour to complement a light summer outfit. This is no surprise – Peridot, after all, is assigned to the summer month of August and is its birthstone.
Peridot is an ancient and currently extremely popular gemstone. It's so old that it can be found even in Egyptian jewellery from as early as the second millennium BC. The stones that were used in those days came from a natural occurrence on a little volcanic island in the Red Sea, about 70 km off the Egyptian coast, which was only rediscovered around 1900 and has since been completely exploited since. Peridot is, however, also a very modern stone, for only a few years ago Peridot occurrences were discovered in the Kashmir region, and the stones show a unique beauty of colour and transparency, so that the image of the stone, which was somewhat dulled over the ages, has received an efficient, present day polishing. |
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