FREE: New Hand Made Genuine Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Necklace

The listing, New Hand Made Genuine Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Necklace has ended.

This is a necklace I made out of genuine lapis lazuli and sterling silver. It is 17" long.

I said awhile back that I wasn't going to list anymore of my jewelery that I made because I don't get enough credits on here. I get more for my beads. The thing people don't realize is that if they don't like the jewelery I've made, they can take it apart and make something else out of the beads. But, now there is something I want on here that is a lot of credits, so I'm listing things today that I normally wouldn't to try to get the credits for it.

Lapis Lazuli is an ancient stone said to represent friendship and truth. Lapis is said to help bring about harmony in relationships. It is a stone of wisdom and awareness.
Lapis is one of the few gemstones that is a rock rather than a mineral. That is because lapis is normally a mixture of 3 minerals: lazurite, calcite and pyrite. Lazurite, a complex mineral containing sulfur, is the essential ingredient of lapis and gives it its vivid blue color. Calcite is calcium carbonate, a white mineral responsible for the white streaks in many specimens of lapis. Pyrite is an iron sulfide which is white-gold in color and lends lapis its distinctive glitter.

It was used for sacred amulets in ancient Egypt and by the Assyrians and Babylonians for cylinder seals. Historians believe that Cleopatra used powdered lapis for eye shadow. There are few gemstones with as long and romantic a history as lapis lazuli. Though found in several locations around the world, the finest lapis comes from the Badakhshan province of northern Afghanistan, where it has been mined continuously for over 6,000 years.

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