Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Pink (Synthetic) 6X10mm known as "azure

known as "azure

Occurring in sizes ranging from a grain of sand to the size of an apple

Dutch Colonel Hendrik Von Prehn

Tiger Eye has been revered and feared throughout history as an

Larvikite 6mm Faceted Round Large Hole Beads - 8 Inch Pink (Synthetic) 6X10mm known as "azureThe name originates from the town of Larvik, Norway where this type of igneous rock is found. Legend has it that it came to the world? s attention in the 1890s when a local geologist saw it glimmering in the moonlight and recommended that it be submitted as a representative stone from Norway to the World? s Fair in Germany. It won 1st price and has been used ever since in sculpture, jewelry, and architecture. It is not a granite, rather a feldspar