New Stones From Uli

[ChrisA222]

I don't get it at all...and I am willing to bet if he marked it down by 95% it would still not sell...

Love his work overall though! I am definately a fan!

 

[erinl]

I would love to have one of his stone's, I have admired so many her on PS. I tried to contact him on two occasions regarding a fire opal and have never had any luck getting one!

 

[royalstarrynight]

The ruby sold!

I wonder what it looks like in real life....

Uli does amazing work though!

 

[Lady_Disdain]

The ruby sold!

I wonder what it looks like in real life....

Uli does amazing work though!

I wonder if it wasn't done with a specific buyer in mind. Probably not sold beforehand but with some vague agreement in place.

 

[chrono]

It sold very quickly so I agree that he could have had a buyer in mind, hence the crazy pricing to dissuade others. He could just as well list it as reserved though...so perhaps the buyer really paid $100K for it?

 

[VapidLapid]

It sold very quickly so I agree that he could have had a buyer in mind, hence the crazy pricing to dissuade others. He could just as well list it as reserved though...so perhaps the buyer really paid $100K for it? :eek:

would that make uli the P.T. Barnum of Bavaria?

 

[iLander]

Uli impresses me as a stand up guy, but I'm wondering if he did it for publicity?

Or maybe the thing glows like crazy insane people?

I gotta think we're missing something . . .

 

[chrono]

I don't know, iLander. Even if it glows like crazy, it is silky to the point where it falls between translucent and opaque.

 

[LD]

I don't know, iLander. Even if it glows like crazy, it is silky to the point where it falls between translucent and opaque.

I'm with Chrono on this. I don't think we're missing anything. For some people big is beautiful and this is 14ct and accordingly to Uli, untreated. It has also been expertly cut and I think that this is where Uli is probably coming from with it because it sounds like it was a challenge to facet because of the silk.

At the end of the day I've seen sapphires as big of this with similar lack of clarity and they are NOT expensive. Uli may have put it on his website at a silly price to deter anybody from buying it because he wanted to keep it and then along pops "Mr I've got a shed load of money and love this gem" and pays the $100k! At that point I doubt any vendor would say "sorry but I'm keeping it!!!". Whatever happened and whomever bought it, this has got to go down as sale of the century if it has indeed sold for $100k.

Now then ........ where are those pretty pebbles in my garden ..............

 

[pregcurious]

Yeah, I don't get it. I've seen sleepy mahenge spinels that looked beautiful, but they were not expensive.

 

[innerkitten]

I got this via email from Uli a few days back, and thought I'd post it so we could discuss the odd $100,000 stone

http://www.osirisgems.com/infomailjanuary2013.html

Anybody have any idea why the Mahenge ruby $100K?

Here's his description;

Mahenge Ruby

This is the most unusual gem I have ever faceted. The rough of this beauty accompanied me at my faceting machine for some years. The rough weight was slightly under 60 cts. and something like this doesn´t happens so often. The shape was really odd and had parts that had to be cut off for some extra tinies. The rough showed some open tubes and it was possible to remove 3 of these tubes while faceting, one is visible at half past 9 (but nearly invisible for the naked eye). This ruby shows one of the heaviest fluorescence I have ever seen in rubies (pinkish-orange). This is typical for gems from the Mahenge-region after these minerals generally have no iron-content. This material was found in the 60ies near the village Mbaranbanga and are normally treated with flux/borax but this one hasn´t undergone that cruel treatment and is completely natural. There is a colourshift effect visible (not enough to call it colourchange, only a light shifting). The better colour shows incandescent light while fluorescent light as well as daylight turns the colour more to a cold pink. The colour in these 4 pics are the incandescent colours.
Not necessary to mention that I gave many hours to facet this beauty to the highest meetpoint accuracy and the best mirror-like polish. Click at the pics to enlarge it and see the structures that causes the silk, it´s a kind of lamellar/tubular with perfectly clear intermediate spaces.
14.17 cts., 14.0 x 9.2 mm
$ 100,000.-

Why facet a stone like that? I would have cabbed it.

 

[chrono]

Would have spent far less time on it too, leading to a less expensive stone due to labour time / cost.