CAST-IRON HUBLEY TOYS
Hubley Toys
In 1892, John Hubley founded the Hubley toy company in Lancaster, Penn. By 1940, the company was the world's largest manufacturer of cast iron toys.
Cast or Casting
The process of making jewelry by pouring molten metal into a mold. Intricate patterns and shapes can be carved into wax from which the mold is made.
Cast
Substance (glass, metal, plastic or other) injected into mold to reproduce form.
Chain
A series of connected loops, links, rings, or beads used to create bracelets or necklaces.
Cast
Made by a centrifugal method of casting metal which becomes thick and hard.
Celluloid ...
sand-cast beads - (see Ghanaian powder-glass beads)
Side Cutters (pliers) - (see full article on Jewellery Pliers)
Slide Lock Clasps - (see Tube Bar Clasps) ...
sand-cast
Technique for making glass beads in Ghana, using powdered or pulverized glass cast in sand, giving the beads a grainy rather than smooth finish.
sapphire ...
sand-cast
Glass beads made from casting powdered or pulverized glass in sand, resulting in a granular finish.
sautoire ...
[Fossil cast of fern leaves, an impression of a fern leaf, an impression of a red wood leaf]
Not Fossils ...
Cast of Characters
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Note from Palagems.com: On May 4-5 2002, the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) hosted a meeting in Carlsbad, CA to discuss developments regarding treated sapphires from Thailand.
Cast iron development lagged in Europe, as the smelters could only achieve temperatures of about 1000 K. Through a good portion of the Middle Ages, in Western Europe, iron was still being made by the working of sponge iron into wrought iron.
Cast iron jewelry worked into delicate openwork patterns, and made in Berlin during the first half of the nineteenth century
Bezel
Gemstone setting where a strip or wall of metal encircles the gemstone ...
Cast slabs of copper from the fire refining processes used as starters for electrolytic refining.
Antique Copper ...
Lost Cast Waxing: A process of casting whereby a wax model is encased in an investment similar to plastic, the investment is agitated mechanically or put into a vacuum to remove air bubbles and placed in an oven where the wax is burned off, ...
Metals cast into a bar or other shape for further processing. In the case of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum they can also be seen as currency or as a currency reserve.
Above is an example of a platinum Ingot.
INLAID ...
The open-cast is now flooded and the tips landscaped
and covered in soil and grass.
The few patches the landscapers have missed
have been prolific.
Creation of cast or mold is first and foremost requirement for casting. Mold is the reverse shape of the jewelry part which is made from a refractory material, for example, sand. Molds can be created, either for temporary use or for permanent use.
ingot
Metal cast into a bar or other shape.
inlay
A decorative element, such as a stone, which is imbedded into another surface so it is flush (or level) with it.
scaife The cast iron wheel used for the polishing of diamond. Most cutters still use the bare scoured wheel (adding a diamond-dust-oil mixture onto the surface by hand) versus the diamond-imbedded scaife.
Sometimes I use cast ring shanks. They come in many styles, but a limited range of sizes. That type of ring can usually be offered in sizes 6 through 9, but smaller or larger sizes aren't an option.
A medal, usually of cast gold, mounted in the form of a medallion, sometimes with enamelled and jewelled mounts, and sometimes hung with pearls. Such pieces were often worn suspended from a chain.
worn in the hair Bangle Non-flexible bracelet Baroque Irregular shaped stone or pearl Basse-taille French for 'shallow cut', enameling technique worked in a chased relief metal and overlaid with translucent enamel Berlin Iron Cast ...
This leaves a hollow cast of the mineral that coated the dissolved mineral.
2. A crusty coating.
Another possible source is the Hebrew word goral, the name for the stones used to cast an oracle; coral was in fact used for casting oracles long ago in Palestine, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean.
Pits throughout a silver cast piece.
List repair options.
planish surface closed, emery, polish lightly.
file flat, solder sheet on surface, finish.
emery, polish till below pit level - this probably won't work.
" John Ruskin advises us to "seek out and cast aside all manner of false or dyed or altered stones" but, in spite of his advice, ...
The answer to that question may have been found in 2007 with the discovery of a lead cast of a shield-shaped diamond found in the archives of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.
Diane's pieces utilized cast metal, faceted rhinestones, cabochons, molded glass, and molded plastic. One design utilized cast glass components with decals that imitated mosaic stone.
Cast. Chandelier. Color Enhanced Gemstones. Composite Stones. Crown. Crown setting. Crystal/Swarovski. Culet. Dicrolic Glass. Druk Beads. Embossed. Emerald Cut. Enameled. Engraved. Etched. Facet. Faux pearls. Filigree. Fine Silver. Fire-polish Beads.
The positive and healing effects of gemstones have been recognized throughout history and by people across the globe - the Romans wore Corals as a charm against nature's furies and as a protection against the evil eye cast by envious people.
The Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia is one of the first commercial open-cast diamond mines that is dug along an olivine lamproite pipe.
The next group is G-H-I-J and is near colorless followed by K-L-M, which have a slight yellow cast. Most of the diamonds sold on the market will be fall into these color groupings.
Stay away from yellows with a brownish cast. Golden yellows or orangish yellows are worth more than pure yellows, but the former may be produced in large amounts with heat treatment and the latter by diffusion/heating, ...
Indonesian cast components are also finished by hand-a process that includes forming and soldering jump rings, oxidizing, cleaning, and polishing. The master mold for the casting of components is also carved by hand. No two pieces are exactly alike.
Bands in very hard metals like titanium must be cast by the manufacturer and cannot be altered. Platinum bands are only sizeable to a few sizes above or below the original casting size.
10.) Nevada VAR: tree limb cast
11.) Nevada VAR: tree limb cast
12.) Hondourus VAR: opalitic sandstone
13.) Louisiana VAR: opalitic conglomerate
14.) Louisiana VAR: opalitic conglomerate
15.) Austrailia VAR: opal in Limonite base
16.) ...
Beautiful sapphires are still to be found, but the cast has changed. Sri Lankan stones are still in reasonably good supply. Australia is reportedly producing better blues. Thai production, particularly at Kanchanaburi, is down significantly.
Gold that has been manufactured from the initial cast ingot stage, into semi-finished or final products.
Acrylic A glassy plastic-like material which can be molded or cast or used in paints and coatings. Acrylic is molded into plastic-like beads or is used to coat beads to give them color or luster.
Ormolu can also be cast bronze or brass that is plated (gilded) with a gold and mercury amalgam, giving it a gold-like look. Ormolu is used in frames, chandeliers, candlesticks, and furniture ornamentation.
For larger quantities, we make an original masterpiece and then cast the required quantity of pieces from the master, finishing them all by hand.
Many of the handcrafted pieces start from gold bars or grains.
Damien Hirst's platinum cast of a human skull is covered with 8,601 diamonds.
The other major producer in this area has a large open-cast operation to a depth of 40 feet which has yielded a considerable quantity of Tsavorite.
Applied Border - a border cast or rolled, then soldered onto hollowware.
*Backstamp - the name stamp or signature of a manufacturer, which usually appears on the underside of the ware. Can be stamped, decaled or incised into the piece.
Champleve A groove or area is cut out of (or cast into) metal and a gelatinous enamel is poured into it and then fired.
chaton a rhinestone or paste stone that has 8 cuts. Most rhinestones are chaton cut.
Demi Parure see Parure below ...
ANODE - Generally refers to impure copper cast into a special shape for incorporating into an electrolytic refinery for the final purification process.
ASSAY - The testing of gold or silver to determine its fineness or purity.
PIERCE WORK: Die-cast frame which is cut and engraved with a great deal of open work in the metal.
PIETRA DURA: See Mosaic
PIQUE: Inlaying of gold or silver into genuine tortoise shell, ivory, or horn.
A unit of metal, typically cast as the first step before milling wire or sheet in a more usable size
inlay
A process by which one material is fitted into a recess in another material ...
An example of this incredible durability is witnessed in the gold coins found in sunken galleons centuries-old - they're as bright and shiny as the day they were cast! ...
Faith Ring
Also called Fede Rings, Faith rings have a bezel cut or cast in the form of two clasped hands to symbolising faith, trust or engagement. They date from Roman times and were popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages ...
ingot - a bar or cast block of metal.
investment - a fine-grained, heat resistant plaster used to make molds for casting.
Fede rings: (or "Faith rings") Are distinguished by having the bezel cut or cast in the form of two clasped hands, symbolizing faith, trust or "plighted troth".
The jewelry was made out of cast iron; the majority of which was produced from 1813-1815, due to a scarcity of gold in Europe. The work was often utilized openwork patterns with little or no gemstone accents.
Ingot - An ingot is a mass of metal heated past its melting point and then cast into the shape of a bar or block.
Luster - From the Latin word "lux", meaning "light". Describes the way light interacts with the surface of a mineral or metal.
See how the trees that overhang roads and walkways cast down blessings on all who pass beneath them. See how the young growing tips are more alert, vigorous, and naively impetuous than the older and mellower lower leaves.
E-coat is not recommended for use with "88 metal", a white cast metal which cannot withstand the e-coat's curing cycle and will usually deform.
Argyle Mine in Western Australia, owned by RTZ, opened in 1985, had produced about 650 million carats by open cast mining, and will probably change to underground pit methods from 2007.
Noah used my inner fire as a lamp on his bow as he cast about on the ocean. I trace my roots as a gemstone to the Nile Delta in 3100 B.C., where Egyptian artisans would craft me into beads or inlay me into hand-wrought jewelry.
How are rings made?
dvb rings are cast by the lost wax method, a handcrafting technique.
Scarab: An ancient Egyptian fertility symbol based on a common dung beetle found in Egypt. It was often carried as an amulet cast from gold or carved from Semiprecious stones.
The principle of the proportion scope is similarly based on comparison of the sideways shadow-image cast by the stone to be checked on to the image screen, with that of the brilliant cut outlined on the screen.
 See also: Color, Stone, Jewel, Rough, Jewelry
  
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