This is not actually opal (Seriously, look it up, opal looks nothing like this). It's opalite, which is a kind of glass, that's sometimes sold as "opal" or "moonstone". Which I knew from the photo, so no surprises there. Beside the misclassification of the stone, it's exactly as described and looks exactly like the photo. The dragon is detailed, like in the picture, and there is no visible glue. It came wrapped in several layers of bubble-wrap, inside an envelope with an inner bubble-wrap layer, so packed securely.