Question for Hootie

[purpleturtle]

Okay, one of my sister's mom came to rush and had the most beautiful ring and necklace on. It was a blue topaz pendant, and it looked emerald cut, but it had a darker star in it, and she said it was the way it was cut. She called it a "Lone Star Topaz", and I have been trying to find it somewhere so my parents can get it for me for Christmas, but noone I have talked to knows anything about it. I was hoping someone could give me the real name if that is not it, and help me find out where I can get it.

Thanks,
Missy

[Jeff OTMG]

I am not Hootie, but I am from Texas. Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.lsjunction.com/gemstone.htm

'Blue topaz grew even hotter after 1974. That was the year a San Angelo physicist and his brother, a science teacher, devised a special way to cut topaz. The computer-designed cut creates the image of a perfect five-rayed star in the center of a gem. This “Lone Star cut” was adopted as Texas’ “Official Gem Cut” in 1977.'

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/symbols/gem.html

Where to get them:
http://www.virtualtexan.com/writers/chapman/topaz.htm

[purpleturtle]

Thank you, Thank you, thank you!!!! Now I feel stupid, but thank you!

Missy

[Hootie]

Sorry I didn't get back to you in time Missy! I'm glad someone else was able to point you in the right direction!
I'd never heard of that cut before, but after looking at it I can see why it's so neat. The only thing I thought of at first was the Blue Star Sapphire which a completely different thing, but has a star (no where similar though).
I wish I could see one up close. Perhaps I'll find one in Austin when I go there for New Years!
Hootie