Lone Star Cut Jewelry

Lone star cut notice the shape of the stone.

Lone star cut jewelry.

The gemstones are in the official gemstone cut of texas. While natural texas mined topaz ranges in color from ice white to sky blue sandy uses the bluer ones. A fifth generation texan she was naturally drawn to using texas mined topazes in her jewelry design. This was appropriate since topaz is the official state gemstone.

Lone star cut in pentagon shape. 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. 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. Lone star cut which is deeper and has more facets thus giving the gemstone much more sparkle.

Sparkling natural texas topaz is faceted with the lone star cut in a pentagon shape a unique cut in an unusual shape. 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. Blue topaz earrings are made with the unique texas mined topaz. The tiny star at the cutlet or bottom of the stone is then outlined by another star in the upper pavillion facets.

On may 25 1977 this lone star design was adopted as the texas state gemstone cut in house concurrent resolution 97. While the mined in texas topazes occur naturally in colors from icy white to sky blue sandy uses the blue ones in her jewelry. The 5 prong mounting with heavy solid bail is 14kt white gold accented with two 1 5mm diamonds. This unusual cut was devised to create the star shape in the stone.

Chain not included sold separately.