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MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCT INFORMATION
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What tunes do my musical items play?
Melodies that are played are listed in each product listing. If not found please contact customer service via email.

What are our products made of?

Alabastrite: Alabastrite is a stone-based material which can be intricately molded producing great detail, and will allow paint to adhere. These items may be cleaned by dusting, however, they should not be washed with water as they are painted with water soluble paints. Bone China White clay with bone ash added.

Bone: The ash content must be at least 25% by U. S. guidelines. Fired at 1800 degrees. The translucent material is finished with a glaze or underglaze (matte). Lighter, stronger, more expensive than porcelain.

Porcelain: Fine ground white clay, molded and fired in an oven for eight hours at 1200 degrees. Finished with a glazed, underglazed, or "bisque" finish. Glazing produces a high gloss; underglaze produces a matte finish. Bisque is a matte finish without glaze. After finishing, the item is "cooked" for six hours at 800 degrees.

Jade Porcelain: Jade porcelain is a type of porcelain made with a finer clay. Usually no glaze or only a colorless glaze will be applied at the final firing to show off the very smooth surface and to preserve the translucency. Example: 27112. Jade Porcelain is used for night lights because of its high degree of translucency when lit.

Stoneware: White clay with fine ground stone. Working with stoneware demands great expertise, and is in fact becoming a lost art. Stoneware is safe to use in microwave and conventional ovens.

Patchwork Items: Unique fabric or paper prints are applied to the surface of porcelain, dolomite or polyresin items. After application, 12 layers of lacquer are added and the item is hand polished to a high gloss between each layer.

Cubic Zircon: The most successful simulated diamond. Properties such as refraction, hardness, and specific gravity are remarkably similar to diamonds. Example: 27432. Cubic zirconia are very hard to distinguish from diamonds; sometimes a jewelers loop will be needed to see the difference.

Diamond: Extremely hard, highly refractive colorless or white crystalline of carbon. Diamonds, like all gemstones, are judged in terms of Carats, or weight (different from Karats, as in gold purity).

Gold: The ultimate precious metal. Virtually indestructible, amazingly malleable, doesn't rust or tarnish. Graded by purity; in the U.S. a scale of 24 is used, so 24 Karats (24K) is 100% pure. 18K is 18 parts gold and 6 parts alloy (other metals), and so on. 10K is the legal minimum for Karat-graded gold. The word "Plumb" indicates the exact purity of the piece. Gemstones Rubies, sapphires, emeralds and amethysts, often treasured as birthstones, fall under the category of gemstones. (Birthstones are listed in the back of your WOP catalog.)

Gemstones: All stones are priced and graded by Carat weight.

Pearl: A smooth, lustrous, variously-colored deposit formed around a grain of sand in the shell of a certain mollusk. Pearls may be formed naturally or "cultured" through an artificial implanting process.

Sterling Silver: To qualify as "sterling" a given piece must be composed of a least 92.5% pure silver. Hong Tze To closely emulate a special stone found in China which is known for its deep red color, these items are created using an alabastrite polyresin.

Hong Tze: pieces are highly polished, further bringing out the intense, deep red color.

Frosted Acrylic: Acrylic items are given the French Lilac process, (used on glass), to achieve the distinctive frosted look. Example: 27205. The drama of frosted glass without the weight.

Gypsum:Gypsum is a white mineral which is usually used to make Plaster of Paris.

Dolomite: A magnesia-rich, sedimentary rock resembling limestone, dolomite is either gray, pink or white in color.

MGO: Magnesium Oxide used to make many things as well as garden and indoor decor figurines; made from magnesia (MAGNESIUM OXIDE); the resulting item will be not as easily broken then polyresin.
Are our colors and measurements accurate?

Colors: We have done our best to display as accurately as possible the colors of the products shown on this Web site. However, because the colors you see will depend on your monitor, we cannot guarantee that your monitor's display of any color will be accurate.

Measurements: We do our best to provide accurate information regarding sizes and weights of our products; but due to many different circumstances please use these as a guide as some items could be slightly larger or smaller then listed.