I shall post pictures with this soon.
So I have a ring that's been passed down on my mom's side. It was in a 14k band, found out recently the two diamonds on the side were CV's. Super sad. But the beauty of the show is the CS.
It is a purple stone, apparently grade A, in normal light. Has the reflexes of red in sunlight. Turns a little darker in other settings, hard to describe the color, like a smokey purple color. I took it in to Jared's to tell me what kind of stone this is.
I always knew it just could not be amethyst. The red was throwing me off. It's guessed to be around .75 carats, circular shape.
Hardness scale is there. But just a little tiny scratch, with everyday wear through 4 generations.
Now here is the kicker.
This stone is reading as a Sapphire.
Under the scope, it turns green. Not an emerald green but a green/yellow change.
Your characteristics of alexandrite..
This stone has stumped everyone at the jewelers. This stone is so wild, that at first they thought it was fake!!
I'm so confused because sapphires shouldn't turn green like that, nor should they test as Sapphire if it is alexandrite.
Do I have a rare stone or something??
So I have a ring that's been passed down on my mom's side. It was in a 14k band, found out recently the two diamonds on the side were CV's. Super sad. But the beauty of the show is the CS.
It is a purple stone, apparently grade A, in normal light. Has the reflexes of red in sunlight. Turns a little darker in other settings, hard to describe the color, like a smokey purple color. I took it in to Jared's to tell me what kind of stone this is.
I always knew it just could not be amethyst. The red was throwing me off. It's guessed to be around .75 carats, circular shape.
Hardness scale is there. But just a little tiny scratch, with everyday wear through 4 generations.
Now here is the kicker.
This stone is reading as a Sapphire.
Under the scope, it turns green. Not an emerald green but a green/yellow change.
Your characteristics of alexandrite..
This stone has stumped everyone at the jewelers. This stone is so wild, that at first they thought it was fake!!
I'm so confused because sapphires shouldn't turn green like that, nor should they test as Sapphire if it is alexandrite.
Do I have a rare stone or something??