Oooo, nice strand. Your photos are helpful, thank you. I wasn't sure what the matrix stone looked like.

When I spotted them I looked at sugilite on Ebay. Of course there is a lot of junk called that. I found some that looked promising and noticed they had sold several strands for high prices, same cut and size as these stones.... a good sign, and their provenance sounded good. So I took the chance and bought these.

The necklace is actually longer than I like so if I do anything right now it would be to remove the quartz. Of course I'll keep looking for more beads of good color.