Thank you to all for the information on jet. I was given some piece of
clothing looking like part of a flapper's dress with beautiful black bead work
and told it was jet - You know along the lines of My granny wore this dress
and said it was jet. I am sure it is French jet - just black glass
According to Helen Muller, in her little book Jet Jewellery and Ornaments -
a
Shire Publication:
Jet is a type of brown coal, a fossilised wood of an ancient tree.
Jet is very light in weight. It breaks with a conchoidal (shell-like )
fracture and burns with a smell of burning coal. It is
Does anybody know how to identify jet beads? I looked on the internet and
found a site that gives scientific methods of identification. Is there some
ordinary method of identification?
Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape,South Africa.
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Hi Jeanette. Identifying jet can be a bit tricky because vendors don't take
kindly to some tests :) Two that the ordinary person can try is 1) jet will
make a brown streak when rubbed across unglazed porcelain, and 2) a hot
needle in an inconspicuous spot will produce a smell like coal burning.
