Oh, perfect. Y'all can help me out.

I didn't take these, but I'm trying to decide which to get. I'm getting a Crystal Ball for my wife for Christmas (It's s'ok, she's not on here and I trust any of you that may know her to keep it zipped).

Completely clear glass spheres are cheaper, extremely clear, but aren't made of crystal, so I feel like they make shitty crystal balls by definition.

Next step up is reconstituted quartz spheres. Here the quartz is ground to a powder, heated, then formed into a sphere. That's pretty cool, but I sort of feel like if you're using it as some sort of divination tool and you're a witch, that industrial re-processing is at odds with and ruins the natural energy and state of the crystal pulled from the Earth (bear with me, that may be the most ridiculous sentence I've typed and I don't believe in that nonsense AT ALL but hey, -this ain't for me.) Also, I feel like both reconstituted quartz and glass spheres just straight up lack personality.

Ok, so that leaves me with natural quartz. Natural quartz is not crystal clear uh...usually, and is full of character or 'flaws' or maybe they are 'aids' to divination. Who knows? They're the most expensive, and in my research, the clearer the natural quartz sphere, the more the price shoots up. They can get crazy expensive.

I've narrowed it down to two spheres, each roughly 3.5" in diameter. They are quite different though.

The first has an amber tinge and is beautifully bisected by a vein of tourmaline. It is, in my opinion, completely badass:

The second lacks the amber hue and tourmaline vein, and represents the "classic" crystal ball option, for the traditional witch. It still has plenty of character and a lot going on. The obvious "safe" choice.

I'm waiting on more pictures from the owner to be sent over, but tell me Hubksi, what do you think? If you were a witch, what crystal ball would you want in your arsenal???