Let's play a game... rainbow gems.

[clumberlove]

I don't know if this counts as orange or yellow, but this is a little amber intaglio that I plan to make a pendant. Sorry about the focus, my phone was struggling!

 

[autumngems]

Time for blue (opal) after green.
We skipped orange and yellow folks.
Now it’s purple time

I was thinking of a setting like this for my other asscher Aquamarine

 

[Shiny Black Cat]

Amethyst

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

I don't know if this counts as orange or yellow, but this is a little amber intaglio that I plan to make a pendant. Sorry about the focus, my phone was struggling!

That is beautiful
My phone plays tricks with colours so imagining what colour it might be
Perhaps the deep burnt gold of some amber

 

[lilmosun]

I think we skipped green and blue so I'll squeeze them in here..

No Oil Emerald


....and today's purchase a Blue Cuprian Opal from Peru
(I can't wait to get this as I had long given up on finding a nice one from a trusted vendor)



@Shiny Black Cat posted a purple Amethyst...so I think we can go onto PINK

 

[CHRISTY-DANIELLE]

Pink zircon from Australia (with unheated creamy sapphires)

 

[Crimson]

So many gorgeous gems and jewels this round, ladies (and gents)!! Some unusual ones we haven't seen yet either, like blue opal.

And @AudreyC, I had been waiting for the deets on your profile ring! It's incredible!! Which lab or labs certified your ruby? I'm thinking about having mine recertified, since it was done back in 2016 (GIA and Gubelin) before I bought it.

So glad you like it @Autumn in New England. I bought the ring without a certificate, after examining it with my loupe and betting it was untreated. It was later certified at Nanyang Gem Lab which has a good reputation for being strict. I am careful with rubies partly because of what I shared in another thread. https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/“an-orange-foreign-material-is-present-in-surface-reaching-fractures”.273093/
I noticed some rubies were certified by GIA as Unheated, together with a comment “that “an orange foreign material is present in surface reaching fractures”. Doesn’t sound very good, does it? These rubies were often sold as unheated, with a commensurate price tag, but it looks as if they had some other form of enhancement to hide their surface- reaching fractures. Most of us would expect unheated rubies to be untreated but this is not the case. Just sharing this because there are so many lovers of coloured stones here!

 

[Nick_G]

I hate carrots
so i give you the persimmon
Delicious
Im waiting for then to come into the shops

What about carats?

 

[Shiny Black Cat]

My tiny ruby, the photo could be better, but it is red.

 

[Autumn in New England]

I'll take orange this round! It is a "flame" cut untreated imperial topaz... it sort of goes from reddish-orange at the tips to a golden in the middle. This shade of orange always reminds me of AUTUMN (and November!). hee hee



On to YELLOW!

 

[Autumn in New England]

@clumberlove What a work of art! I love when nature and man (or woman) come together to produce something truly wonderful.

@lilmosun That emerald looks positively plugged in! I love the setting too. The blue opal is likewise yummy. It's very jelly. Are you a fan of gem silica? It's quite similar. I'm very fond of it and have been collecting the stone for a while. Thank you for keeping the thread on track, my friend!!

@CHRISTY-DANIELLE Lots of pink zircon is heated, but that stone looks natural! And I love that you describe the side stones as "creamy." I look forward to seeing those beauties set! I would do rose gold for the center basket and white for the rest.

@Shiny Black Cat How cool! Your ruby looks beautifully saturated.

@AudreyC Oh yes, so much you have to think about when purchasing ruby!! Your stone is the perfect color. I just love the ribbon/bow setting.

 

[Crimson]

I'll take orange this round! It is a "flame" cut untreated imperial topaz... it sort of goes from reddish-orange at the tips to a golden in the middle. This shade of orange always reminds me of AUTUMN (and November!). hee hee



On to YELLOW!

@Autumn in New England, Ooh, I love flame shapes. The colors of this imperial topaz remind me of flames - in a warm and comforting way. Just right for a cool autumn evening,

 

[Crimson]

My tiny ruby, the photo could be better, but it is red.

I like this kind of rich red! just a tiny hint of purple makes the ruby all the more interesting.

 

[Crimson]

Something different - my new yellow jadeite rabbit. It is 3cm and was sold as a pendant, but I like having it on my desk.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

Teeny tiny peridot in some dangles

this is part of an over priced and baddly designed range (the chain gets caught up and is almost impossible to untangle) by a NZ singer Boh Ringer (well i think she is a singer)
I have 2 matching brooches ill save for latter
@Autumn in New England saphire is my birth stone but i went through a stage of just loving peridot.- well i still do - green is my favourite colour

Winter sheets on the bed
very unsexy

 

[Gloria27]

My addition for blue: SB turquoise ring from Gemporia.




Next: purple

 

[Niel]

 

[Crimson]

@Niel Your profile pic reminded me of my pink sapphire earrings!

 

[Shiny Black Cat]

red again?

 

[Nick_G]

Red:

 

[Shiny Black Cat]

Smoky quartz in mixed light

 

[Autumn in New England]

@AudreyC How cute is your little bunny! And I love yellow jadeite!! I recently used it as my "yellow" stone in a pastel rainbow pendant I had made by a Navajo artist. I'll have to share it. I've been obsessed with rainbows since I was a wee tyke!

@Daisys and Diamonds I'm really fond of the organic leaf design in those earrings! The color green went from being one of my least favorite colors as a kid, to one of my very favorites since discovering gems!!

@Gloria27 That turquoise cab is incredible!!

@Niel Is that purple sapphire... it's so juicy! Yummm.

@Nick_G That little beauty looks like marble-hosted ruby! I bet it fluoresces like crazy. Nice!!

@Shiny Black Cat Oooooo I like this one! For a moment, I thought it was bi-color tourmaline or something similiar. It's a pleochroic smoky quartz! Cool!!

YELLOW is up, friends!

 

[RMOO]

Another citrine

 

[Autumn in New England]

And a beautiful one at that, @RMOO!

Next up: GREEN

 

[Niel]

 

[Autumn in New England]

Ooooooo... so beautimous, @Niel!! Is that yellow sapphire and emerald? I thought the yellow could also be zircon, because, for a second, I thought I spied some double refraction in the facets.

BLUE is next!

 

[Niel]

Ooooooo... so beautimous, @Niel!! Is that yellow sapphire and emerald? I thought the yellow could also be zircon, because, for a second, I thought I spied some double refraction in the facets.

BLUE is next!

No. sapphire and tourmaline

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

So blue is up ?
Have i showed you my mall aquas ?

 

[Autumn in New England]

They have really beautiful saturation, @Daisys and Diamonds!

Up next: PURPLE... or blurple... or violet... or lavender... or periwinkle.. or indigo... or...

 

[BrilliantStars]

My first time posting here! I need to learn how to take pictures for gem stone!
A purple tourmaline...