Gemstone Rings

[Bonsai]

Gemstones have long been an interest of mine and I finally have the resources to learn more about them.

I've been researching better cuts, all that. So I did go and take some looks at the rings I have. The Alexandrite seem like good cuts? I don't see any window on the top. In some lighting I can't see all the way through the gem, so this is why I question my new judgement. What are your thoughts?

On the rubies they were sold as natural but I think they might be flux filled .the ring is pretty but always cloudy, it has silk like things in it but large, like threads running through it. The pendant has a line down it and on one half of the line it looks like the microscopic images of glass or flux treated rubies. IDK. there's a tiny hole at the bottom of the ruby on the pendant and the "line"runs up from that hole.

Just thought Id ask opinions.

 

[voce]

In the image 6921-1 I do see a window--that clear part that returns no color. This is a native cut, not precision cut, so I expect a window, though this window isn't that bad. This is not an alexandrite, I don't think.

With the gem that's pictured in 6917 and 6919, the clarity isn't good enough to be able to tell the quality of cut.

 

[Bonsai]

Thank you so much! and can you tell me about native cut vs precison cuts. Something I was also planning to look up bc I see "calibrated" cuts as mentioned on gem sites.

The alexandrite both have GIA reports. I noticed the one photographed green and the other purple, which was strange, so I took the ring out to the same settings as the pendant and it photographed purple. I think the iPhone is compensating for the scene/ surrounding colors.

And sorry they aren't organized well:

6919 ruby
6917 alexandrite
6912-1 ruby
6922-1 alexandrite

 

[Bron357]

Hi, unfortunately the photos are too distant for us to see the colour properly.
When buying rubies you really need a reputable lab report as there are so many synthetic and heavily treated rubies out there.
If you have a Loupe you can compare the inclusions you see in your gems to example photos. Lotus Gemology has a wonderful photos of microscopic inclusions, both natural, treated and synthetic.
Other than that, you need to send them away to a gem lab for assessment.
Your Alexandrite photo ? I can’t see if it’s the right colours? Is it teal / green in daylight changing to purple / red under incandescent? That’s what an Alexandrite is supposed to do. And of course there are a ton of synthetic Alexandrite out there as well. Again only a proper lab report can confirm.

 

[Bonsai]

Here are better pictures. I suppose they all have windows or does it matter how the light hits them? I notice depending on the angle as with the alexandrite ring its different.
Sorry they are not clean

 

[Bonsai]

It’s weird on the ring with the naked eye it doesn’t have the white reflections in the photos

the alexandrite have Gia reports so I think they r legit