Morrisonite, Deschutes & Willow Creek Jasper For Saleĭue to my newfound obsession with photographing high end display specimens of Morrisonite, Deschutes & Willow Creek Jaspers and other stones, I have started buying and selling them as well. In many ways, jasper is more revealing of the reasons why people are so fascinated with shiny and colorful rocks than are the more hallowed diamonds, emeralds, and rubies. Jasper has been a prized medium of jewelers for millennia, and more recently has inspired painters, sculptors, photographers, and artists of all kinds. Jasper is a semiprecious rock with a more refined nature and a wider variety of species and “looks.” It’s flowing bands and frosty rings have been compared to the ocean, fire, jungles, and the earthen landscape itself. Not all precious stones are gems, however, and not all are so ostentatious and dazzling. Neither in the past nor today are people able to resist their allure or stifle their own sense of wonder and awe when presented with a diamond ring, a string of pearls, or the humongous geological miracles housed in places like the Tower of London or the Dalí museum in Figueres. Their vibrant colors, clarity, shimmer, and above all rarity have made them the treasures of kings, nobles, and merchant magnates who have used them as repositories of wealth, prestige, and power.ĭespite their historic monopoly by the elites, the masses have also been drawn to and beguiled by these stones. Precious stones have captured people’s imagination since antiquity.
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