3.4ct LIGHTNING RIDGE N5 DARK 1960s OLD VERY STABLE Fx242

You'll never guess what I've been up to over the last 3 months.  I've been away!!!  I got a new pair of glasses which led to upgrading my lapidary equipment to be able to supply you with opal polished to 50,000 mesh.  So I've gone back and re-polished much of the OLD GEMS I've cut since the 1960's.  Also, you remember that large lot of Mintabie rough I bought from Patsey and Dan Tucker all those decades ago and forgot about??  Well I've taken time to cut 50 or so of the most promising and have some "unique" black crystal and solid black Mintabie including some N1 and N2 solid and crystal with that ever so rare "red on black" black Mintabie, the one that's so rare because about 98% of these gems come out of Lightning Ridge leaving the remaining 2% from the rest of the worlds opal fields, out of which Mintabie is only a drop in that 2% bucket.  Rarer than most diamonds and I've got 'em and keep watching I'll be putting them on starting with some rare and unusual black crystal with wild and beautiful crystal colors, bright greens and blue, red and flame orange and yellow.  And also some black Mintabie crystal with beauriful colors and UNIQUE black veins descretly runnig within, seemingly supplying black life blood to these rare, old opals that have been out of the mines for decades curing into the most stable and dependable opal in the world and at no reserve and low starting bids.