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Jadeite is also harder and can have
translucency or transparency which pop up
the jade price. In general, the better the
transparency, shining, color, texture and no
cracks etc, the higher the value.
Jadeites are
ideal for jade carvings and also used
for a Jade Buddha, pendants, bangles,
necklaces and other jewelry. These days its
Myanmar or Burmese jadeite for sale and real
good quality items are rather rare and quite
expensive. Actually they get continuously
more expensive since Chinese people can
afford to buy jade jewelry.
Jadeite color
is like the rainbow from white black
with every shade in between; most popular is
lavender jade, green jade and white color.
The deep green is also known as Imperial
Jade and fetches the best prices considering
it has the right translucency, texture and
is more or less free of cracks.
In recent
years certain Chinese jade dealers try
to manipulate the gems by filling cracks
with raisin under high pressure and
“enhance” the color via heat treatment and /
or keeping the stones in a chemical solution
for a while. Since they don’t tell this to
customers they are crooks and the owner of
the jade piece has a bad surprise after 2-3
years when the jewelry deteriorates.
This
manipulations are done almost
exclusively by Chinese dealers who try to
squeeze money by cheating customers. One of
the problem is there are no basic parameters
which can be used as a guideline such as
with diamonds and the 4C's.
This is the "good stuff"
and it is relatively affordable, the
necklaces and pendants here are all
around $ 20,- and they look
gorgeous. All this is real genuine
jade with some silver in between.
There is no enhancements or similar
just pure natural stones. |
