Analyzing The 5 Most Common Jewellery Myths

Jewellery is mostly assessed by common blokes wrongly, and sometimes in an outright absurd fashion. Our lack of knowledge on the various types of stones might make us vulnerable to embezzlers in the trade. But which knowledge is a fact and which one is a myth? I have listed five of the most common myths in the jewellery industry you better be acquainted with.

- Among all the precious stones found on earth, diamond is the rarest: Diamonds may be rare, and the colored ones, rarer still, but they are certainly not the rarest of all the stones ever discovered. The Guinness Book of World Records states that 'painite' is the rarest gem mineral found on earth. It is a borate mineral first found by British mineralogist and gem dealer, Arthur C.D. Pain. The mineral was evidently named after its discoverer.

- Vinegar dissolves pearls: Pearl, rather the calcium carbonate in pearl, does dissolve in vinegar, but that doesn't mean you need to take extreme care in not letting your precious pearl set come in contact with vinegar. They do not dissolve in vinegar the way salt dissolves in water. It depends upon the size of the pearl. The bigger the pearl, the longer the time will it take to dissolve. Once the pearl is crushed, it will dissolve relatively faster in vinegar. The myth apparently evolved from the legend of Cleopatra, who dissolved a valuable pearl in vinegar and gulped it down to prove a point.

- Opals bring bad luck to the person who owns them: This myth is a comparatively recent evolution. The ancient Romans regarded opals as precious stones and believed them to be the most supreme ones. Even the Caesars handed their wives opals for the sake of good luck. It is when these precious stones started to become associated with black magic and misfortune that the opals lost their rich history. These absurd superstitions have today been dispelled, but there is still the echo reverberating in some regions.

- Bite the piece of gold to know if it is real: This now might be true, but gold is too precious and delicate a piece of jewellery to risk biting it. As the standard of gold rises, so does its purity and softness. Your strong set of teeth may quite easily leave a mark on it. So this test is certainly not worth a try.

- A diamond is the most expensive piece of jewellery: Again, quite a possibility, but most experts seem to think otherwise. Some of them believe that emeralds are the most expensive. A few others think that alexandrite fetches the most dough. You in turn might think that painite will be the most expensive one due to its rarity. But then again, rarity of a mineral is not the only factor that is taken into account while determining its price. However, regardless the opinions of experts, it is the diamond which is generally sold for insane amounts of money. The 6.04 carat blue diamond fetched a whopping $7.98 million, breaking a world record set by another diamond earlier, the .95 carat 'Hancock Red'.

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