Red of vivid saturation and medium tone. Quite rare, very expensive.
Most pigeon’s blood labelled rubies for sale are either too dark or not saturated enough, in my opinion
Well, the reddest Ruby I ever saw I was at the Smithsonian. It was a vivid pinkish red, neon, and remember that rubies also glow in sunlight due to the fluorescence they have.
This is the Carmen Lucia Ruby I saw at the Smithsonian, glows a neon pinkish red. You get the idea of the hue here, but imagine it glowing. All the redder rubies I’ve seen, have a more orange read to the hue.
Be careful of the term “pigeon blood.” It is a very commonly and loosely used by vendors.
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Gorgeous! I saved a pic you posted a while ago of a 7 (?) ct demantoid from the Smithsonian. Would love to go one day.
What do you PSers think pigeon blood ruby look like? I have seen a very large range of colors being referred as pigeon blood ruby. From a pinkish red to a near black red. Any opinion?
Too many labs have lax color gradings. Vivid red with strong fluoro
Pigeon blood is a very subjective term. To me, there is no ruby in the world that looks like the concept of "pigeon blood" in all light sources. Some light sources bring out too much pink fluorescence, and some are not bright enough to display the ruby to the best effect. In all honesty, I do not put any stock in the term "pigeon blood", except that the vendor wishes to denote a fine color red.
I don't consider any of the above cited examples apart from the SSEF reference stone (not even Bron's ruby) that is at the color quality of pigeon blood. Bron's ruby photographs as a little too pink for me to consider pigeon blood, the first Instagram demantoidz linked does not look saturated enough, while the second Instagram demantoidz linked did not have an even light return, so the crystal is too dark for me to consider it pigeon blood.
What people should be using to talk about color is AGL's system, using a NUMERICAL tone, description of secondary colors, and a NUMERICAL assessment of brilliancy. I don't believe I would ever call a dull stone that does not return light well to be pigeon blood.
Since I've been sitting around drooling at this vendor's work, I happened upon this ring. I NEVER bought anything from her, and I don't know a thing about her, but I think this video shows the touch of blue that some of the finest Burmese gems have. I forgot to mention that. This blue sheen in fine rubies is very very rare.
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Dianna Rae Jewelry on Instagram: "Burmese ruby, anyone? #yesplease"
49 likes, 6 comments - diannaraejewelry on March 21, 2018: "Burmese ruby, anyone? #yesplease".www.instagram.com
No expert but to me that stone is lacking in transparency? My eyes aren’t finely honed enough to see the blue.
It has silk. I was strictly looking at color, not transparency.
Got you. Still can’t see the blue I need to look at more rubies obviously! It’s interesting to me that in a blue sapphire silk seems to my eyes to be desirable yet in a ruby not so much. Not to hijack the thread but if you have any more rubies photos with blue in I would be fascinated to see.
The Carmen Lucia ruby I posted at the top has a blue sheen too, I just thought this video showed it better. LOL, I guess not.
I personally prefer blue reds, if that makes sense. I'm not an orange red kind of ruby person. The famous sunrise ruby is an orange red, still highly coveted for it's size, color, and Burmese origin, but I think the blue reds are far rarer.
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The Carmen Lucia ruby I posted at the top has a blue sheen too, I just thought this video showed it better. LOL, I guess not.
I personally prefer blue reds, if that makes sense. I'm not an orange red kind of ruby person. The famous sunrise ruby is an orange red from the photos posted, still highly coveted for it's size, color, and Burmese origin, but I think the blue reds are far rarer.
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I think that is an unfair picture of the Sunrise ruby, I like to think it looks more like this: