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Old 04-12-2012, 09:06 AM
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I definitely looked at a lot of online images before deciding that this piece appeared genuine. There are crooks out there.

In the course of my searching, I ran across one dealer who had a bunch of "Moldavite" that was ALL curved planes, as though they had been cut from a cylinder. Or, I thought, they could've come from a glass bottle. I gave that dealer a wide berth.

When dealing with the metaphysical, we have to remember the old saying: keep an open mind, but not SO wide open that your brain falls out. :)

In this case of this dealer, I compared this stone's image to that of other Moldavite. Then I looked at the dealer's rep (very solid), and at his other offerings (also legitimate stones at reasonable prices). If he'd failed any of those three tests, I'd have taken my Moldavite search elsewhere.

That's about as careful as we can be, without seeing the item in person first.
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