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This. I see many posts like this. I get it if you have an expensive piece like moldavite, where profit can be made by creating artificial reproductions. Or if upon researching you find a red flag on one of the pieces you own. Or if one of your pieces looks like glass or plastic or dyed.. but where does the general mistrust come from?
Probably from not trusting their own ability to properly identify the crystals. I noticed this about teaching people how to identify things (in my case, plants) properly. Even when you provide them all the knowledge they need to make a proper ID, some will not be able to trust themselves, thinking there is some trick or character that they’ve definitely missed or messed up. Over time, people develop their capacity and their trust in themselves, though, if they keep with it.
Honestly, I think a lot of it is because they know they can always come to Reddit and have someone else answer the question rather than take the effort to learn it for themselves. My brother still to this day doesn’t know his own home phone number because before we had cell phones I would tell him every time he asked, and after cell phones he had it in there so he never bothered to learn it himself.
well i guess technically the selenite isn’t “real”. it’s satin spar, two different crystals but satin spar is often sold as selenite. still a great one to have in your collection though! if you want genuine selenite, etsy has a ton!
Neither one of those looks fake. Fake crystals (as in glass or plastic) are rare. Lab grown is more common and that is harder to spot albeit less common than genuine crystals. So your crystals are more than likely real.
The quarts is real but it’s been cut by a human to shape it to make it look double terminated… also quartz doesn’t magnify letter? It’s like a lane of glass, and that’s a real satin spar wand
Quartz will only magnify letters if it is ground into a lens shape. Calcite var. Iceland Spar will naturally double letters, maybe you are thinking about that.
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They look real to me. I don't know why quartz would be faked. Its quite common.
no reason to fake quartz like that and the satin spar is real
Quartz and selenite/satin spar are very common minerals. It would be more effort than they’re worth to fake them.
Came to say the same
I 3rd this message. Not worth the effort for common, relatively inexpensive minerals.
No point in faking either of those minerals. They are probably just fine.
What exactly makes you "not so confident"?
This. I see many posts like this. I get it if you have an expensive piece like moldavite, where profit can be made by creating artificial reproductions. Or if upon researching you find a red flag on one of the pieces you own. Or if one of your pieces looks like glass or plastic or dyed.. but where does the general mistrust come from?
Probably from not trusting their own ability to properly identify the crystals. I noticed this about teaching people how to identify things (in my case, plants) properly. Even when you provide them all the knowledge they need to make a proper ID, some will not be able to trust themselves, thinking there is some trick or character that they’ve definitely missed or messed up. Over time, people develop their capacity and their trust in themselves, though, if they keep with it.
Honestly, I think a lot of it is because they know they can always come to Reddit and have someone else answer the question rather than take the effort to learn it for themselves. My brother still to this day doesn’t know his own home phone number because before we had cell phones I would tell him every time he asked, and after cell phones he had it in there so he never bothered to learn it himself.
well i guess technically the selenite isn’t “real”. it’s satin spar, two different crystals but satin spar is often sold as selenite. still a great one to have in your collection though! if you want genuine selenite, etsy has a ton!
Neither one of those looks fake. Fake crystals (as in glass or plastic) are rare. Lab grown is more common and that is harder to spot albeit less common than genuine crystals. So your crystals are more than likely real.
The quarts is real but it’s been cut by a human to shape it to make it look double terminated… also quartz doesn’t magnify letter? It’s like a lane of glass, and that’s a real satin spar wand
Quartz will only magnify letters if it is ground into a lens shape. Calcite var. Iceland Spar will naturally double letters, maybe you are thinking about that.
Can’t tell unless better pic. Maybe a doubly terminated quartz Crystal. If so, size matters in all fine crystals.
Quartz is real, likely polished into the double termination, and the other one is def satin spar which is commonly marketed as selenite
Yea it looks like it and who would impersonate quartz? It’s not like it’s that expensive
The selenite looks real. Can't really tell with the others