Frequently marcasite jewelry is thought by some people to be made from an iron pyrite or sulfide stone and this is not completely true. The stone used to come up with this bright and sparkly jewelry is iron pyrite because its hardness can withstand the activity without breaking. The marcasite stone (iron sulfide) is too fragile that it disintegrates if the jewelers try to make use of it. During the eighteenth century, people used marcasite to make ornaments such as brooches, cameos, or lockets regularly although it had already been discovered countless years back.
The great historians living now have done researches confirming that such people as ancient Greek used marcasite jewelry to beautify their bodies while in Peru South America, they have witnessed iron pyrite jewel art in burial places of Inca. In Britain, Queen Victoria had used the stone first during her hubby’s demise and she specifically worn the jewelry to denote she had just become widowed along with the usual black attire. Many years after that, she still used the ornaments and after she also passed on, people in her country continued to make use of marcasite jewelry with dark cloth accentuation.
In fact iron pyrite stone is also dark in colors, cheap and fit to manufacture ornaments as beautiful as though they are made of gold.
Jewelers realizing this often blend it with other brighter metals such as white gold or sterling silver to offer it a very contemporary look that is attention grabbing when first displayed in the markets. Ladies cannot buy earrings, brooches, rings, necklaces, bracelets and pendants made of marcasite stone in striking pyramidal shapes while pearls and onyx are regularly part of adornment. If the jewelers do not find the iron pyrite, they substitute it with steel, glass or other metals of choice as long as it creates the same striking marcasite jewelry background.