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MEVLANA SILVER COLLECTION
LABRADORITE
The labradorite gemstone gets its name from the region Labrador in Canada where this gem stone is found in plenty. Even before the year 1000, the natives of Maine used this gem...
LAPIS LAZULI
The name is composed from 'lapis', the Latin word for stone, and 'azula', which comes from the Arabic and means blue. Lapis lazuli is regarded...
RAINBOW MOONSTONE
The soft, lunar colorings of the rainbow moonstone have awed and mesmerized many people from different cultures. Rainbow moonstone is from the feldspar family...
TIGER EYE
Tiger’s Eye is one of the chatoyant gemstones. This means it has a changeable silky luster when you look at it. This is caused as light is reflected from the inside of the stone....
AMBAR
The English word amber derives from the Arabic anbar, via Medieval Latin ambar and Old French ambre. According to the myth, when Helios' son Phaëton was killed, his mourning sisters became poplars, and their tears became the origin of elektron, amber...
ONYX
Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word onux, meaning fingernail. The story is that one day frisky Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the clippings...
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