omg omg omg - you''re RIGHT!!! that IS bamboo!!!!! toooo funny but now I like it a ittle better already!!! haha Its still a little goofy but not anything that could touch the first ring in this thread LOL The color seems washed out for amethyst (but I don''t know squat about amethyst). I do have an amethyst ring but it is much smaller and richer hued than this one... I don''t know the range amethyst comes in. But it is for certain an amethyst.Date: 2/11/2007 8:00:07 PM
Author: Pyramid
Isn''t the last ring you posted supposed to be bamboo, not nugget in the gold design? The second last one is like Amethyst and the last one Rhodolite Garnet maybe?
oh ametrine? I''ll have to look that up! I''ve never heard of it! I like the size of it - it''s pretty big and I like the color too...Date: 2/11/2007 8:57:18 PM
Author: HazranRahimi
The st one looks like an ametrine n the 2nd one looks like a garnet
hmmm..... I just looked up ametrine here http://www.gemstone.org/gem-by-gem/english/ametrine.html and I don''t think it looks or sounds like it... this stone in my ring is a very consistent and even hue, but pretty light and transparent. There''s no golden hue to it - on the contrary it has less golden warmth than my amethyst does. But I only looked it up in the one place so maybe that''s not right...Date: 2/11/2007 9:12:14 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
oh ametrine? I''ll have to look that up! I''ve never heard of it! I like the size of it - it''s pretty big and I like the color too...Date: 2/11/2007 8:57:18 PM
Author: HazranRahimi
The st one looks like an ametrine n the 2nd one looks like a garnet
I wish my mom were still alive so I could ask her about this stuff... the coolest old things I have don''t belong in the colored forum, I''d have to post them in jewelry I guess... I have this necklace that my great-great grandmother made out of pressed and embossed rosepetals... and a gold coin from like 1905 or something that is set as a pendant.... tons and tons of sunday church type stuff from the 40''s and 50''s.... I don''t want to bore everyone with this stuff LOL What I *really* need to do is find an antiques forum so I can post some of the furniture I have...Date: 2/11/2007 10:09:04 PM
Author: Pyramid
You probably found this when you read about Ametrine but did you know it is part Amethyst and part Citrine (which is also quartz), the only ones I have seen is on TV on QVC, the ones they had were purple and then yellow on one end very noticeably different. They maybe on the lower end of the scale though I don''t know. Your stone doesn''t look like those ones did. Another thing I have read on the coloured stones forum here is that there are a lot of synthetic amethysts in the world, (although I don''t know if shopping channels would be selling those). A local jeweller should be able to tell you for sure though.
Okay - so regardless of color its likely quartz... I find it so interesting the way these different colors have different names.... like beryl being both aqua and emerald.... if they''re both beryl - where do you draw the line and stop calling it an aqua and start calling it an emerald?Date: 2/11/2007 9:53:22 PM
Author: widget
Wow Cehra...I hadn''t seen your new additions to this thread!
I love seeing these old rings...if you have more from your Mom''s stash, post ''em!
That last photograph is great...amethysts (like most colored gemstones) come in different degrees of color saturation...intense like your smaller oval, lighter like the big EC. They can be really pale (sometimes called ''Rose de France'') like this:
Dark, light, bi-colored (ametrine)...they''re all varieties of quartz...
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Oh I''m not fooled.... to me I doubt it is fake *emerald* because it just isn''t the right color and it is too included. Now... my thinking is that it is some sort of tourmaline OR it is beryl but not really "emerald" green as much as dark teal green... the more I look at it the more I see it has like big clefts inside of it... who knows. What I can tell you is that the appraiser I am sending my diamond to has agreed to have it removed from "the booger" haha and test it to see if it is an emerald and if it is, to then appraise it.Date: 2/12/2007 7:38:34 PM
Author: crown1
so much rambling and i don''t know if any of this will help you? i do know that much really old jewelry is synthetic and even glass with foil behind it. don''t let the fact that it is set in karat gold fool you.
thanksDate: 2/12/2007 8:48:06 PM
Author: FireGoddess
That big purple ring definitely looks like amethyst to me. Very pretty cut. Love the pink color of that bamboo gold ring too...so pretty!
yeah - I keep looking at the "emerald" and thinking - okay if this is real and in good enough condition to mount in a ring... but it''s so small LOL I couldn''t even afford to buy it (if it is what was claimed) and yet it''s not big enough @@ LOLDate: 2/13/2007 6:01:22 PM
Author: Miranda
Those are pretty rings, Cehra. I looove that big *amethyst?*. That''s what I''m talkin'' about...BIG stones. Love ''em!
Oh I really like this ring. I like the color and the cut and the two diamonds on each side. Classic but with a twist. That''s the kind of thing I like.Date: 2/11/2007 4:22:34 PM
Author: Cehrabehra
My mom loved buying jewelry she saw on tv.... and when she died I inherited it.... omg I won''t get into some of it -it''s just.... I have two ruby and diamond rings that are just... almost identical and neither is what I would ever buy or wear and I''ve come recently to LIKE rubies - if they''re singular, huge, and gorgeous vs multiple, cheap, and thick looking LOL
But she did get a couple things I like... here''s one - I have NO IDEA what it is... but it''s big and I kinda like it - it''s not what I would design on my own but it''s... kinda quirky cute I think.
It might be - I have no idea LOL It is kinda cool how sometimes it looks really red violet and sometimes it looks almost the color of the largest stone above - the "amethyst" one that you liked the ring... kinda subtle compared to the ones that are violet and teal!!!!!Date: 2/14/2007 11:42:30 AM
Author: Stone Hunter
Could the Bamboo ring be a color change Garnet? I''ve been looking at those online lately. Garnet is softer than Sapphires so it would show some wear.
LOVE the latest photos you added. Really shows off your two Amethysts.