Won a prize in a jewelry competition. But I doubt that any user of jewels.com has the intention of buying it and wearing it around their neck. The dinosaur necklace, in any case, won the important design award in Queensland, Australia. This Design Awards invites designers to create original pieces using opal in some way. The award, in fact, takes place in conjunction with the Winton Opal Tradeshow dedicated to this hard stone. This year, Age of Dinosaurs won, a piece created by the Japanese jeweler Ayano Nakajima with diamonds, rubies and, of course, boulder opal, a stone found in Australia. Nakajima said the inspiration for the necklace came to him after finding a rough boulder opal that contained the silhouette of a dinosaur. The jewel represents a “fire-breathing volcano, its lava flow is represented by black diamonds and rubies, while the dinosaur, movable by a spring, walks through the lush growth of prehistoric plants, created with green garnets”, he explained. Indeed the Winton area is known for its rich offering of boulder opal, as well as a number of dinosaur fossils.
