tara3056
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Jul 3, 2012
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I just bought a beautiful Mahenge spinel from Prima Gems and thought I'd start a thread about it even though I just posted in the "Show Me Your Mahenge" thread, too.
Details:
1.87 carats
7.3 mm round x 5 mm deep
Eye-clean despite how it looks in the macro vendor pic
While I LOVE it, I'm interested to see what the experts here think. Honest opinions are welcome, though I'm pretty much already sold on keeping it because it takes my breath away IRL. Still, sometimes it's nice to compare what you think is great to what the standard "ideal" is.
Here's what Jaimeen said about the inclusion, cut, and color:
"First of all, let me tell you that I couldn't even capture half the beauty of this stone on camera. The saturation of the color and the brilliance of the cutting just isn't showing up on the camera. But the picture should definitely give you a fair idea of what the stone looks like. The color is the top color that Mahenges produce. If viewed by a loupe, you will notice a tiny hair-like wave in the middle of the stone which of course the camera has exaggerated. The inclusion is just about large enough to prove that it is a natural stone and small enough to where it is invisible from most angles."
I don't see the inclusion with my naked eye. The stone is a bit difficult to photograph. IRL, it is a hot hot pink in incandescent lighting, turning more red in sunlight. It glows strongly under the black light, and it's one of the more unusual gems I've seen in how it performs so well in very, very low lighting despite the fact that it's well-saturated and not a pale stone. If there's any light at all, the stone catches it and looks almost neon pink.
The first 2 pics are from Jaimeen and the others are mine, sitting by a window on a very overcast thunderstormy morning.
Details:
1.87 carats
7.3 mm round x 5 mm deep
Eye-clean despite how it looks in the macro vendor pic
While I LOVE it, I'm interested to see what the experts here think. Honest opinions are welcome, though I'm pretty much already sold on keeping it because it takes my breath away IRL. Still, sometimes it's nice to compare what you think is great to what the standard "ideal" is.
Here's what Jaimeen said about the inclusion, cut, and color:
"First of all, let me tell you that I couldn't even capture half the beauty of this stone on camera. The saturation of the color and the brilliance of the cutting just isn't showing up on the camera. But the picture should definitely give you a fair idea of what the stone looks like. The color is the top color that Mahenges produce. If viewed by a loupe, you will notice a tiny hair-like wave in the middle of the stone which of course the camera has exaggerated. The inclusion is just about large enough to prove that it is a natural stone and small enough to where it is invisible from most angles."
I don't see the inclusion with my naked eye. The stone is a bit difficult to photograph. IRL, it is a hot hot pink in incandescent lighting, turning more red in sunlight. It glows strongly under the black light, and it's one of the more unusual gems I've seen in how it performs so well in very, very low lighting despite the fact that it's well-saturated and not a pale stone. If there's any light at all, the stone catches it and looks almost neon pink.
The first 2 pics are from Jaimeen and the others are mine, sitting by a window on a very overcast thunderstormy morning.
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