The colors of the rainbow. The glow of the Northern Lights. The dramatic flash of summer lightning. All the light of the evening sky are captured in the mysterious, shifting hues of Opal.

With its pulsating display of fire and color, Opal was long thought to hold magical powers. Opals symbolized hope, innocence, and purity to the Greeks and Romans. Opals were often reserved for royalty. The crown of the Holy Roman Emperor held a superb example, a fiery red Opal called “The Burning of Troy”. This superb Opal was given as a gift from Napoleon to Josephine – forming part of the crown jewels of France. Queen Victoria of England also loved Opals, and often presented them as wedding gifts.

Opal is found in several different colors including: black Opal (pictured), whose blue, gray or black body color enhances the play of fire; white or fire Opal, with a lightish or white body color; and crystal Opal, a transparent version with bright color flashes. Boulder Opal has color flashes intertwined with rock matrix. Opals are not faceted but cut into rounded or free-form cabochons that enhance their play of color.

Tourmaline

Tourmaline comes in the widest variety of colors of any gemstone with green being the most well-known. Vivid reds, hot pinks, verdant greens and blues abound in this marvelous gem variety. Some are also called by individual names: chrome, rubellite, indicolite, or are called by the location from which they are mined such as, California, Maine, or Paraiba (Brazil). Tourmalines, because of their vivid, rich colors are often substituted for more expensive emeralds, sapphires and rubies.

Tourmalines occur in many forms as well: several faceted shapes, cabochons (domed), carvings, thin slices called Watermelon Tourmaline (in which the center is pink with an outer green edge), “parti-colored” (in which the cut gemstone transitions in color shades from two to several shades including, green, blue, colorless, and pink), and “cat’s eye”, in which a vertical line is centered in a dome-shaped stone, appearing as the eye of a cat.

Browse our large selection of gorgeous and affordable Opal & Tourmaline Jewelry at www.JRJewelers.com now!

Our 2009 Fall discount campaign referes to all October Birthstone jewelry:  Opal and Tourmaline as well.  Have a quick look on our jewelry harvest and tell us what you think. Remember that all prices listed will shrunk with 15%.

In order benefit from the discount is to use the following Coupon Code at the time of checkout:

GEMSTONES09

We proudly announce the fact that our collection was enriched with new Opal items as follows:

Opal and diamond ring 1

Opal and diamond pendant

Opal and diamond ring 2

Opal and diamond earrings

Opal and diamond ring 3

Also from out October jewelry collection we present the tourmaline highlights:

Green Tourmaline, Yellow Sapphire, and Diamond Ring

Pink Tourmaline Huggie Earrings

Green Tourmaline and Diamond Ring

Multi Color Tourmaline Necklace

Free-form Green Tourmaline Pendant