I think I'm done buying blue sapphires

[Avondale]

I think you should cannibalize the earrings for the diamonds. Finding a matched pair of OECs is very difficult! And our little labs in the earring mountings that you will only ever see from 4 feet away. Set it immediately so that we can enjoy it!

I'm probably cannibalizing the earrings, yeah. I'll give it just a bit of time, in case another member pops up and says they have a suitable pair stored somewhere in a box that they forgot about. But going with labs in the earrings is definitely a solid plan B. I was toying with the idea of getting two spesses set in them and making a full set with the ring and pendant, but then I thought, weeeell, if I leave some diamonds in, then they could work as a set with the new ring... So that's where we are now.

What I look for in a colored stone is for it to hold its color in different lighting. Check.

I think the OP is making the right decision, in not getting lab reports.

The color is glorious and a lab report will not change that.

Spot on. The stone already has a report on the things that matter most. We know it's a sapphire, we know it's natural, we know it's heated. What else is there.

An origin report is going to accomplish only one of two things:

1. It will either confirm some regular origin or no origin at all, and I would've spent money that could've went towards the setting instead, or

2. It will confirm Kashmir and then I'll be terrified of wearing it. I remember you sharing it's how you felt when you got your Kashmir. I'm not in the business of spending money just to then let it sit in a safe. Life isn't waiting for us to live it.

The reality is, I want neither of the two outcomes.

I have never seen a heated Kashmir offered for sale

Let's be honest, this stone proooobably wasn't the prettiest in its unheated form. They wouldn't have cooked it otherwise. And Kashmirs have a reputation precisely because they were spectacular right out of the ground. Besides, if you're after a Kashmir, and you're willing to spend the pretty sizeable amount of money to get it, would you want one that was treated? I doubt there's any market for heated Kashmir to begin with.