A few keepers

[OTL]

These are the keepers from a couple months' purchase. Thought I'd share some colors with you. Return is a pain in the axx though....

 

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Very fresh looking near 2ct mali garnet. No brownish hue.

 

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my 1.5ct CT. I love the teal blue green.

 

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a 1.4ct pinkish red spinel. Eye visiable inclusions. I take it for the color and cut.

 

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unheated pink sapphire, just 1.12ct but got very good saturation. These are horrible pictures really. I find it really hard to capture the true saturation of this stone...No matter what camera I use. Well...I tried.

 

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A dirty spess, well not dirty dirty, but got inclusions that kinda bug me...Still, I couldn't resist the color of it.

 

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a pair of yellow tourmaline. They tend to be darker greenish yellow indoor. But when they are in the sun....

 

[JewelFreak]

Keepers is right! The yellow tourms look wonderful -- Mali the same, without brown -- what a treat. I'm just drooling over your purple sapphire!

--- Laurie

 

[sonyachancs]

they are all beautiful!! but that mali garnet and red spinel especially

 

[katharath]

Love these...especially the Mali, spinel, and sapphire. Great haul!

 

[Jereni]

Love that teal stone!!!!

 

[OTL]

Love that teal stone!!!!

Thanks, it's a cuprian tourmaline with a GIT memo of a "paraiba tourmaline".

 

[OTL]

Love these...especially the Mali, spinel, and sapphire. Great haul!

Thanks Kathryn. I have enjoyed them so much!

 

[OTL]

Keepers is right! The yellow tourms look wonderful -- Mali the same, without brown -- what a treat. I'm just drooling over your purple sapphire!

--- Laurie

That yellow tourmaline is quite unique to me. usually you see yellow tourmaline with a light to medium saturation. This pair do have higher saturation. When the sun hit them, make my heart skip a beap...

 

[minousbijoux]

I like your stones too, particularly the Mali and the copper bearing tourmaline. Very pretty.

 

[OTL]

I like your stones too, particularly the Mali and the copper bearing tourmaline. Very pretty.

Thanks, although I do enjoy Mali garnet, but they can be really difficult to source. I mean no olive no brown and with good cutting. This is it, it will be my last and only mali garnet