2021 – Agate and Chalcedony 2021 – Seventeenth
Agate and Chalcedony
Lisbet Thoresen and Stuart Overlin, editors
Photographs by Mia Dixon, Erica and Harold Van Pelt, Orasa Weldon and Robert Weldon
Specifications: 8.25" x 10.75", digital press, full color, soft cover, perfect binding, 124pp.
Publication Date: June 1, 2021
- Dedication and Acknowledgments 3
- Program 4
- Speaker and Author Biographies 5
- Dona Leicht 8
In Memoriam: Claren (“Si”) Frazier (1933–2020)
- Timothy Adams 12
Agate and Chalcedony Objects by Fabergé - Peter J. Heaney 28
Iris Agates and Cantor Dusts: The Textural Complexity of Agates - William Larson 40
Collecting Cryptocrystalline Quartz - Çiğdem Lüle 50
Chalcedonies of Anatolia: From Neolithic to Modern Day - Nathan Renfro 56
The Microworld of Agate and Chalcedony - Si and Ann Frazier 66
A Historical Look at Gemstone Carving - Lisbet Thoresen 68
Harold Van Pelt: A Passion Carved in Stone - Robert Weldon 90
Challenges of Photographing Agates - Robert Weldon, Cathleen Jonathan, and Rose Tozer 100
Gem Virtuosos: The Drehers and Their Extraordinary Carvings
From Gems & Gemology (2017) - Ann Frazier 120
Agate Bibliography
