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Contents:

  • How Does Jet Form?
  • Jet (lignite) - Wikipedia
  • "Whitby" Jet
  • Diamond Sayings and Quotes
  • What is Jet?

    • Jet found in the Whitby area of England was deposited in a saltwater swamp about million years ago.

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    It was then compressed during burial and geologically heated to temperatures and pressures that took it through the rank of lignite, and almost to the rank of sub-bituminous coal. This has given the hard jet of Whitby the better working qualities than any other jet that has been found in abundance. As a result, "Whitby Jet" is now famous throughout the world. Jet has a few properties that make it useful and desirable.

    These have dictated its use across the centuries.

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    The first of these properties is its ability to be easily carved or cut into shapes. Jet is soft and has a uniform texture, which allows it to be carved with precision. Jet can be rubbed to a nice matte finish or polished to a very bright luster.

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    Done well, these finishes enhance the aesthetic value of carved or cut pieces of jet. Jet also has a low specific gravity. This allows the beads to be worn with greater comfort and the brooch to be worn without placing as much stress or hanging awkwardly on the garment. Jet found by beachcombing: Two pieces of Whitby Jet found by beachcombing along the eastern shore of England.

    How Does Jet Form?

    They show the "rounded" shape and matte luster of jet that is collected along the beach. These pieces are about 2 centimeters in size and produce a brown streak. The most important source of jet has always been the eastern coast of England and Scotland, centered near what is now the community of Whitby.

    In this area people found small, black, rounded, light-weight stones along the shoreline. They discovered that these stones could easily be fashioned into beads and other objects and could be polished to a very bright luster. In ancient Egypt, small flat pieces of jet were polished to a bright luster and used as mirrors. People have been making items from jet since the Stone Age.

    One of the oldest known jet objects is a necklace made from alternating jet and chalk beads found in a Neolithic burial in France. Necklaces of jet beads have been found in numerous bronze-age mound burials in England and Scotland. At two bronze-age sites in England, partially finished jet items, waste fragments, and the tools used to make them reveal an early jet industry [1]. During the Roman rule of Britain, much jet was collected along the beaches around Whitby and taken to York for manufacturing into jewelry and other items.

    These items were then marketed locally and sold to merchants in Europe.

    Jet (lignite) - Wikipedia

    Items made with jet were marketed with stories claiming that the material had protective and healing properties. This inspired people to fashion jet into amulets and talismans that were worn for protection or good fortune. The greatest popularity of jet began in about when Queen Victoria began wearing it in "mourning jewelry" after the death of her husband, Prince Albert.

    Perhaps inspired by the Queen, many people in England and other parts of the world began wearing jewelry made with jet. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

    "Whitby" Jet

    All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job. The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

    This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

    Diamond Sayings and Quotes

    The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

    The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond. Diamond being the toughest thing on the face of earth is still the most prettiest object; pretty is not always being honeyed. Be the first to review this item Would you like to tell us about a lower price? Don't have a Kindle? Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Share your thoughts with other customers.

    What is Jet?

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