Went to the Japanese national museum of nature and science in Ueno today. Absolutely breathtaking. Totally forgot to take any pictures I was so in awe. DID however take this one
With the comment of "why the fuck does anybody want a boring fucking diamond when you could have beautiful, interesting stones like this?????"
I mean, fuck "precious" stones. Give me quartz and schist and other "rocks" like that!
@Nine People focus so much on what jewelry is worth that they completely ignore what should be more important: How it looks
@Nine tbh this is why I prefer polished rock jewellery. A diamond could be swapped with glass and it’d look the same.
But polished minerals such as labrodorite are unique for every peice that’s made using them
Oh whoops forgot to caption that. It's a display case featuring a huge example of quartz of a type called "Japanese twin" according to the sign. There's a huge flat clear crystal with a tree-like white substance inside, standing upright (seriously it's like a foot across and tall almost I think?? I'm bad at measurements but it was big), on a base of yellowy, large, nodule-like crystal clusters