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Blackjack Spinel

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6223 3412

Address: 33 Salamanca Place, ground floor in Galleria Building 7000 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.masonsjewellers.com.au/

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21.01.2022 Black on Black...!! I've polished a frame on the matt checkerboard of this 'BlackJack' Spinel from Derby, in N.E. Tassie: I can't decide whether it's more Gothic, or more Elizabethan...

13.01.2022 These bespoke pearl catches double as enhancers: we made the smaller one for Jennifer a few years back, and then she acquired another string of larger pearls which required me to find and facet a bigger Tassie Spinel for the catch, to be in proportion... ...or perhaps the pearls act as Blackjack enhancers...??

08.01.2022 Brooch: it deserves a title, but it's such a complex piece, which references so many influences ranging from Mediæval, through Art Deco, to Japanese contemporary, that I can't name it. The point, though, with regard to this Page, is that it shows our Tasmanian Blackjack Spinel being integrated in design with other materials. rather than as the main focus itself, although the stone deserves featuring that way, too. For this brooch I've cut two cones of the Blackjack Spinel, t...o set with the two 'donuts' of Greenstone, and then played in the fabrication, with alternating areas of textured silver, and outliers of gold shot and a square motif; set into those are black diamonds, and a solitary ruby; and suspended from the Blackjack tassel, a pearl. [Normally I'd probably post such a paradigm piece of my signature-style on my sister Page, Phill Mason: studio jeweller, but I wanted this audience to see the possibilities of its use.] See more

07.01.2022 A woman came in yesterday, admiring our 'BlackJack' rings, as possible wedding rings for her and her partner, but cautioned that we may refuse to make them... I replied that we don't make such value-judgements, and over the decades we've made many pairs of rings for same-gender couples, when Tyrus called out from deeper in the studio: "We won't bake a cake for you, though...!!" Inherited humour...!!

02.01.2022 Happy 150th BirthDay to our City of Hobart Town Hall, designed by architect Henry Hunter. During Masons Studio Jewellers own decades of establishment, these cuff links are one of many commissions we've designed in Tasmania's 'Blackjack Spinel'. Wikipedia: "Somewhat influenced by Palazzo Farnese in Rome... At the time of construction, it was designed to house the City of Hobart's council chambers, as well as police offices, the municipal court and the State Library of Tasmania.These remained in use for nearly fifty years after the town hall was opened. It, along with Franklin Square, were built on the site of the former government house which had been demolished upon completion of the present government house."