Customer Reviews:
 great bracelet November 10, 2009
M. Sutliff (Santa Rosa, Ca.)
My wife loved this very much. I would recommend this as a gift for any woman. Or men in SF
 Gilson Opal, not mined October 10, 2009
J. Henson (US)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this for a gift for a teenage girl, hoping I might be able to upgrade it to my mom, who is well versed in the various quality of stones & metals. Unfortunately this will not be suitable for my mom, but for my daughter it's just fine. The bracelet is stamped as sterling. The gold overlay is unknown - no markings for it so I'm going to assume it's just that - a gold tone overlay (they should have left it as sterling). The stone is pretty and is not a plastic Opal Simulant, it also is not a doublet or triplet. It's a laboratory version called a Gilson Opal. Still very pretty and not cheap, perhaps a bit easier to keep than the real thing as you don't need to worry about temperature differences fracturing it, but it has the lizard skin pattern within that is tell-tale of these.
I had hoped we were looking at a mined opal -- for this price it would have been a steal ;)
For the price I paid ($35 on lightning deal & sold out within 15 minutes) This is a decent item. Worth the money for the sterling and a nice stone, but IMHO, not worth much more.
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