VapidLapid
Ideal_Rock
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So in the downtime on my travels to RI, Cape Cod, and Maine, I have been on a binge. In addition to the three new stones from Gene driving around in my Packard, I have this mali garnet asscher from gemfix. I am afraid I have to call it Sybil, because it displays so many different personalities. You may notice also from the pictures that I bought a microscope. Edmund Optics was having a clearance sale with 50% off some items and there was this stereo 20x/40x at half price so I ordered it. WoW. I did not buy any camera adapters ot anything. I set my canon SD950 to macro, put the lens right up to the eyepiece and fired. The stone is sitting on the glass top of an antique dissection microscope with a mirror at 45º under it. you can see sometimes the reflection of the camera lens and/or the stone and its reflection both.
First up is a picture of a feather in the stone that I did not see with a loupe. the stone is loupe clean, but the 20x reveals both awesome things and things one might not want to find.
![maliasschertable.jpg maliasschertable.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/278/278623-3f207409e8417c4be43ad4144e301d65.jpg)
First up is a picture of a feather in the stone that I did not see with a loupe. the stone is loupe clean, but the 20x reveals both awesome things and things one might not want to find.
![malimicrofeather.jpg malimicrofeather.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/278/278620-43a7dd3482f952a4216a181ce5e739ae.jpg)
![maliasschercorner.jpg maliasschercorner.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/278/278621-cea1d8129c59afbccbbc892b31bd9178.jpg)
![maliasscherside.jpg maliasscherside.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/278/278622-25b6ebd6694be0aa86a75bc9c4d0a502.jpg)
![maliasschertable.jpg maliasschertable.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/278/278623-3f207409e8417c4be43ad4144e301d65.jpg)