Lone Star Cut Jewelry

While the mined in texas topazes occur naturally in colors from icy white to sky blue sandy uses the blue ones in her jewelry.

Lone star cut jewelry.

The gemstones are in the official gemstone cut of texas. This was appropriate since topaz is the official state gemstone. Lone star cut blue topaz jewelry in 1974 two midland texas facetors designed a new cut for the blue topaz featuring a perfect lone star. The 5 prong mounting with heavy solid bail is 14kt white gold accented with two 1 5mm diamonds.

All are cut with the lone star official state of texas gemstone cut which is a deeper more faceted cut than the standard star gemstone cut. On may 25 1977 this lone star design was adopted as the texas state gemstone cut in house concurrent resolution 97. The tiny star at the cutlet or bottom of the stone is then outlined by another star in the upper pavillion facets. Lone star cut which is deeper and has more facets thus giving the gemstone much more sparkle.

Lone star cut in pentagon shape. Chain not included sold separately. This unusual cut was devised to create the star shape in the stone. Blue topaz earrings are made with the unique texas mined topaz.

Lone star cut gem jewelry by the karat patch is really quite special. While natural texas mined topaz ranges in color from ice white to sky blue sandy uses the bluer ones. Since 2003 sandy talen has been creating texas topaz jewelry using the official gemstone of the state of texas in the official gemstone cut of texas. Our lone star cut gems are cut by our lapidary in austin texas and are unique in that they display a double star.

The stone is about 2mm deeper than a diamond cut stone.