Panjsher Emeralds[not for sale]

[tim01]

Just wondering what people may think of the color. Theres been no treatment to these stones. Yes thats right no oil or dye anything what so ever.

 

[MJO]

I''m sorry to say I do not like the stones. Black inclussions and not very clean. Panshir stones are ussually much cleaner. I don''t know the size of the stones you have there but I just turned down cleaner untreated 1-3ct stones for $125/ct

 

[MINE!!]

About 10 years ago I was looking for an emerald. I can across a website that said something about emeralds that had been found found the wreckage of a spanish gallion... or something like that.... These emeralds lookk similair to the ones on the website. They are not my taste, but I think they are neat. Thank you for sharing them with us!

 

[Rube]

Hi there tim01,

I don''t know anything about those stones, just that I have a similar one on my hand. I mainly wear it because it was in my family and I love its color. I always assumed it was not of great quality because it is so cloudy and included. Sorry I can''t be of more help!

Rube

 

[colorchange]

Quality isn''t great, except the center one that looks nice.

 

[MJO]

Date: 10/14/2005 8:33:11 AM
Author: MINE!!
About 10 years ago I was looking for an emerald. I can across a website that said something about emeralds that had been found found the wreckage of a spanish gallion... or something like that.... These emeralds lookk similair to the ones on the website. They are not my taste, but I think they are neat. Thank you for sharing them with us!

Hello Mine,

One of my freinds has a 50ct unhenhanced from that gallion. It''s a beauty. It''s one of the sisters. He had a pair of stones cut from the uncut crystals. Both were 50cts (I beilve it is 50 each). One was enhanced and the other is not.

Panshir emeralds were bought by a polish company and sold to Columians who then sold them as Columbian Emeralds until the fall of the Taliban. They are probubly the best currently mined as the crystal is much better than any other on the fine stones. The color is not as deep green as the old world Columbian stones but as I said much cleaner.

 

[MINE!!]

MJO,

I was tempted to buy one of those emeralds.. just to have something from the gallion to show off...

Sounds like I may have missed out. Goes to show, you should never pass up a stone that you love...

 

[AGBF]

I will try to photopgraph my emeralds. They are inexpensive and small. I bought them in Colombia and they may have been oiled for all I know. I thought all emeralds were oilded at the mines, so unless one mines one's own emeralds, how would he know? (Is there a test for that? I don't think so, or it would hardly be something that requires debate!)

At any rate, I bought my emeralds before I knew anything about gems. They are unincluded-or unincluded to the point where I saw nothing under a microscope-but they were not dark green. They were a medium green.

I'm not sure how that relates to this discussion, but I hate the black inclusions!

Deborah

 

[MINE!!]

MJO?

Was this galleon called the Isabella or something like that?

 

[MJO]

It was the Atocha.

 

[valeria101]

Color? Well... they look cheerful to me. The picture also makes them look hazy throughout. Maybe I have a different idea of 'emerald green' but the light color is nice too in its own right.Perhaps it wasn't the same material (pictures are never true to nature, and what I see on my computer may be different from what you do, etc.), but I remember some similar emeralds made into engraved gents rings. The color may have been like the darker stone in your pictures, and the black inclusions make me think that the stones were similar. The fuzzy texture of these stones made the engraving of Islamic caligraphy stand out nicely on larger flat table cut stones. These were new rings - someone's custom order.

Does clarity enhancement help these stones? There doesn't seem to be fractures in them.

At least to me, the notion of 'unenhanced' adds value to already top of the line material which benefits from the prestige rather than the potential quality nudge from wonderful to perfect, and not much so to anything else where looks would be greatly improved by treatment. If this is true on average about emerald seekers, I have no way to know.

 

[MJO]

They are hazy. That''s due to the inclussions and fractures in the crystal. Enhancement won''t help these stones much. Enhancement is used on stones with no black inclussions and where small fractures come to the surface and interconnect with those below the surface.