My Birthday Pad.. Show me yours!

[RSargent]

I finally did it. I found a color I love in a setting I love. I just wish I had one in rose gold too! I would love to see other CSrs Pads.
There are so many colors!
-Robyn

 

[LoversKites]

Please share specs! Looks like a lovely lighter toned pad. Many people look for a colour like that.

 

[RSargent]

Thank you! It is lighter than many I have seen. It's petite at 1.17 carats.

 

[RSargent]

Colors can be so mixed and subtle in this stone depending on the light. Here is another photo that shows a little bit more color.

 

[indigoblue]

Very pretty! I'm a YG fan too.

 

[minousbijoux]

Happy Birthday! Congratulations on finding just what you were looking for! Flaunt that baby!

 

[Acinom]

Congrats!!!
Beautiful stone and setting. Enjoy wearing this beauty!

 

[baby nurse]

So glad you found your dream stone-- it's a beautiful color !

Since you asked to see others pad sapphires, here is mine, a 1.5 carat oval.

 

[RSargent]

Gorgeous. I love that setting!

 

[baby nurse]

Thank you RSargent! I have a lot of colored stones, very few set. This one is special because it celebrates the birth of my second son who will be 7 Memorial Day! Sigh, time flies...

 

[Linda W]

RSargent, your pad is beautiful. Pads are my very favorite gemstone. I hope you enjoy yours, as much as I enjoy mine.

Baby Nurse, always loved yours.

Here is a picture of mine. Mine is 3.50 and unheated. Also, please excuse my messy fingernails. I had been working in the yard. ha.

 

[Marlow]

Very nice color!

 

[Linda W]

Thank you Marlow. I love these gemstones so much.

 

[RSargent]

What an amazing color your stone is! Nice size too!

 

[minousbijoux]

RSargent: by any chance did you padparadscha come with a lab report identifying it as a pad, or was this another one of you great buys you happened across in an estate sale or antique market (I know how good you are at such finds)?

 

[RSargent]

Oops I see I have a bit of a reputation.

 

[minousbijoux]

Oops I see I have a bit of a reputation.

I believe that most of us here would say that there is tremendous admiration bestowed upon those who go to estate sales/flea markets and come away with stones, that upon lab inspection, turn out to be as represented and beautiful. I further believe that you fall firmly in that camp.

 

[RSargent]

Thank you for that. I know lab reports are better to have but I frankly don't even trust those anymore. My ring came with an independent appraisal this time that its natural ceylon material. The person I bought it from is a dear friend that I trust. Who ever really knows? Inclusions are right, stone purchased well before BE diff ever existed. Here's to hope!

 

[RSargent]

Tomorrow I post my lab certified spinel ring cert and all!

 

[chrono]

1. Not all labs are the same; a few are better than most due to experience and having better equipment
2. Not all independent appraisers are the same; most do not have the experience and equipment of most labs
3. Surface diffusion happened in the 1940s and lattice diffusion is sometime in 1980s.

 

[RSargent]

Thanks Chrono! Great info. Is this correct? I was under the possibly mistaken understanding that the bulk diffused pads out there are more recent than the 1980s:

Diffusion treatment is a surface layer baked into the gemstone surface that imparts a false color for the stone. This should not be confused with the bulk diffusion process recently uncovered by the AGTA regarding padparadascha sapphires.

 

[seadancer1]

This pad was taken from a broken antique ring and re-set. It is app. one and three quarter carat. The color is a stunning peach pink...hard to describe but it glows...the antique ring was kept in a bank vault for many, many years befor being sold as a deceased estate item. It was sold to me as a garnet! When I had it re-set I also had it appraised.....l turned out to be a natural padparadsha sapphire not a garnet! The original ring was 22kt gold and very tiny, for me to wear it was too small even to re-size.

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