About · The place — Nishapur
MINE
The stone is the place.
Firoza buys its stone from the mine at Nishapur, and sells it on. The vein is the origin of everything here, and the matrix of each parcel is the fingerprint of that place.
Three rooms of the place
01
The vein
The stone comes from one place: the mine at Nishapur. Everything Firoza sells begins there, and every parcel is filed by the matrix it carries.
02
The buying
A friend with a shop buys directly from the mine at Nishapur. He has spent about thirty years in the trade, alongside partners who have spent as long. Firoza sells for them.
03
The filing
Each parcel is photographed as it arrives and filed under its lot number, with its matrix family written on the file.
One stone, close up
Look close enough and the dark veining fills the frame. No two parcels share it — that is how a parcel is known, and how the place is recognised.
No photograph of the mine exists. The stone stands for the place.
The partnership
That is the whole arrangement: the partners know the stone, the shop knows the mine, and Firoza carries the parcels to buyers abroad — photographed, captioned, and filed while the assay is still open.
3
Partners in the trade
30
About thirty years in the trade
20%
Of the profit, after costs
Firoza invests no capital in the stone. It takes twenty per cent of the profit after costs are deducted, and its work is only selling.
The parcels on file
No dated history has been supplied, so there is no timeline of years. The record below is the file as it stands: each parcel, its matrix family, and how many photographs of it are on file. The captions carry the parcel and its matrix — no photograph dates have been supplied.
| Lot | Matrix family | Photographs |
|---|---|---|
| NIS-2026-001 | Spiderweb | 10 |
| NIS-2026-002 | Host | 8 |
| NIS-2026-003 | Dark | 6 |
| NIS-2026-004 | Spiderweb | 3 |
| NIS-2026-005 | Spiderweb | 3 |
| NIS-2026-006 | Host | 8 |
| NIS-2026-007 | Spiderweb | 6 |
| NIS-2026-008 | Spiderweb | 2 |
The parcels, as photographed
In the hand
Green-brown, in the hand
The pile, from above
What we do not claim
01
No mine ownership. The stone is bought from the mine, not mined by us.
02
No certificates. No lot carries a laboratory certificate, and none is claimed.
03
No dates. No founding year is given, because none has been supplied.
From the Rock to the Bench
Mine. Cut. Grade. Collection. Then the next parcel, and the loop begins again.