Smokey quartz beaded store bracelet with fresh water pearls, a large baroque pearl and Swarovski crystl spacers

Stunning smokey quartz beaded bracelet made of 12mm smokey quartz beads of beautiful color and fresh water pearls. There are 4 9-10mm fresh water pearls, in addition to a 15mm baroque pearl, a central piece of this bracelet. The combination of smokey quartz and pearls is quite stunning. This bracelet is 7.5 Inches in length, but can be adjusted depending on your needs. This bracelet can easily go from day to night, and can be worn by itself or in combination with other beaded items made of smokey quartz or pearls. Please, refer to the images in this listing.

Smoky quartz is the National Gem of Scotland and has been considered a sacred stone there for a long time, a belief dating back to the Druids. The stone is the birthstone for Scorpios. Smoky quartz is one of the rare brown gemstones. Other rare brown gemstones are topaz, black beryl and brown corundum.

Smoky quartz has been used widely since ancient times because it is so easy to cut as a gem and equally as easy to shape for ornaments. Smoky quartz was popular store for making snuff bottles in China; it was popular in ancient times with the Romans, who used the stone for carving intaglio seals. The Sumerians cut and engraved various quartz stones as cylinder seals and used them later as ring seals. As the Sumerians invented writing, quartz is probably one of the first gem stone materials to be written on, and also to be used as a stamp to make a written impression in clay. Some thousands of years ago, the Egyptians made beads, scarab figures, and other jewelry from many of the quartz stones (including the transparent amethyst, prize of the quartz family).

There are many examples in various museums throughout the world, of carved quartz stones that were popular in Greece and Rome. These sometimes show the upper half of the body of a man with a hand upraised, pronouncing judgment. Sometimes just the head and shoulders of the man are shown, but always with the hand raised. These pieces are said to have been especially good to have around at the time, during a lawsuit. In the 14th century, it was common for the quartz crystal to be engraved with the image of a man in armor holding a bow and arrow. The stone supposedly guarded the wearer and the place where it was situated.

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