Blue Aventurine Cat in Basket Gemstone September Birthstone SS26 The second image shows the

The second image shows the scale of this piece relative to a standard 3cm gemstone cat

Friendship: From an old French word for “Turkish”

These cats are Handcast in York

Size: 5cm tall

Blue Aventurine Cat in Basket Gemstone September Birthstone SS26 The second image shows theBlue Aventurine is a translucent form of quartz. Mineral inclusions give it a variety of colours. Fuchsite is often responsible for the blue variety. Named from the Italian "a ventura" or "by chance". This is likely to be due to the accidental discovery of aventurine glass or goldstone in the 18th Century in Venice. The man made glass resembled the natural material and the name duly transferred to the mineral. Most blue aventurine comes from India,