Talk:Jet (gemstone)

message: why was lignite used as a jewellery item? It thought it's pretty common... And is it more known today as 'jet'? Because i've always known it as 'lignite' or 'brown coal'...
:Is there some mistake here? I'm no geologist but jet is clearly not the same as the brown coal that the word "lignite" normally refers to and I can't find anything to confirm the idea that jet is also known as lignite. Flapdragon 23:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Jet is a form of lignite, but it's harder than the lignite used as fuel and takes a polish which the fuel doesn't.MidlandLinda (talk) 21:24, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Lignite?

message: Is this the source of the expression "jet black"? Cctoide 11:58, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems very plausible, and this seems to bear that out. Some corroboration probably ought to be found, and the information included in both this entry, as well as any future entry about the color. --Belg4mit 19:39, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Chaucer, in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" says "His Comb was redder than the fine coral..His bile was black and as the jet"  That's c1386, and the OED says it's the stone that's the source of the saying.  MidlandLinda (talk) 21:31, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jet black? 

message: :there is no jet visible on the second picture, all I see is bronze:
Someone maybe want to edit it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.24.112.226 (talk) 20:38, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong picture 

message: Sorry, I have entered this reference twice! I don't know how to enter the same reference twice. Please help!
Oliver, N. 2012. A History of Ancient Britain.  A Phoenix Paperback. ISBN 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 42
Osborne 19:30, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: "Damselfly" is a misreading of German Dasselfliege, meaning "botfly". See images of botfly-larva jet-carving at Venus figures from Petersfels. MagistraMundi (talk) 08:53, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "Damselfly" versus Dasselfliege

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message: Preprint at:
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©Geni (talk) 23:10, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Source for future use

message: The term for the style of early jet necklaces is apparently spacer-plate necklace
©Geni (talk) 19:47, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: I can't find a source for this and a passing mention of 20s fashion in a history of whitby jet says they weren't able to capitalise on the fashion for black jewellery suggesting any such necklaces would have been made of other materials.©Geni (talk) 12:21, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
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message: Sarah Caldwell Steele who is doing a PHd at durham is apparently working on a new method of identifying whitey jet. Need to check back in a few years to see how that went.
©Geni (talk) 23:55, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Upcoming PHd thesis