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Post by caeterle on Mar 22, 2024 13:07:15 GMT -6
Thinking about it, I guess you are right, Dawn. Of course we also know how many names today are market names taken out of thin air. This makes me feel better about my pretty green stone
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Post by brad on Mar 22, 2024 14:20:51 GMT -6
We learned a fairly safe Mineral identification call in our geology department. If you are not sure, just call it quartz. After all, much of minerals we cut and polish for non-precious stones are some variety of quartz. Scroll through this site if interested. Brad www.geologyin.com/2016/04/major-varieties-of-quartz.html?m=1
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Post by DawninCal on Mar 24, 2024 16:23:04 GMT -6
That's a helpful and informative site, Brad. Thank you for the link. Cat, I think the worst are those who try to pass off dyed white howlite as turquoise. It looks quite convincing and there are some charging ridiculous prices for something that is not turquoise. Shame on them if they are doing that knowingly. For those who don't, shame on them for not doing their research. If I'm not sure, I say so. I've also been known to sacrifice a bead to the hammer to see if it was howlite or not. Dawn
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Post by Irith-Rita on Mar 25, 2024 6:04:30 GMT -6
The stone could be Rhodocrosite or maybe Pink Aventurine? I really don't know. Perhaps you could find an expert in a stone and bead shop near where you live? Dawn, I just took a look at this lovely pendant in your shop. I hope you will not mind my interference but I realized you have entered only 6 tags. I searched the tags you could add to complete the required 13. Please consider that the tag "copper" includes many handmade items which are not jewelry. It would be hard to find your necklace under this tag. Therefore, I would prefer "copper pendant" or "copper necklace". The same goes for "impressionist". If you search for only "Impressionist" in the shop site, you will see many paintings there and your necklace would be "lost" in the search. Perhaps try "impressionist jewelry" instead. I found a few more which you may find helpful: Natural Stone Pendant Handmade pendant woven copper jewelry (or if you already used "copper" in the tags as I have suggested above, I believe that just "woven jewelry" would be fine) round stone pendant bohemian jewelry boho necklace I hope these tags will make it easier for people to find. By the way - your description of the necklace is beautiful. I wish I could describe mine so well
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Post by DawninCal on Mar 25, 2024 11:40:44 GMT -6
Thank you, Irith, for both the kind words and the suggestions! I always have trouble coming up with tags; my mind just goes blank once I've used the obvious ones. I originally was going to use "impressionist jewelry" but it's over Etsy's 20 character limit for tags. I can't think of any other shorter words that mean necklace or jewelry, but a synonym for pendant is "charm" so I could try that. I will go and edit my listing to include the others you've suggested. One of the reasons I love our site is that we help and support each other. Dawn
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Post by Irith-Rita on Mar 25, 2024 16:41:13 GMT -6
Dawn, I have realized that the sellers who sell most, use tags that have many people who use them. They also receive many 5 star reviews. Try to check which tag names they used when they made a stone pendant.
You are right about "impressionist jewelry". It is too long. I tried "Impressionist jewel" but checked it in the search, and saw they have very few views. Therefore it would be OK when included in the description but not in the heading and the tags.
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Post by DawninCal on Mar 25, 2024 17:27:50 GMT -6
I think I did add "impressionist jewelry" to my description when I went to edit the tags. I will double check. Dawn
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Post by michelle on Mar 26, 2024 21:22:40 GMT -6
Regarding my previous post. I did a search in my Apps store. There are several highly rated rock, mineral, and crystal identifier apps. I have not tried one yet, but enjoyed other similar apps, like bird identifiers etc. brad I have one for plants. The rock identifier would be cool. Thanks!
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