Those are lovely pictures of you Sithathoriunet! Where the heck did you get an 8 carat ruby. You need to post that in Show Me the Ring and tell us more about it!!! I''ve seen large sapphires and emeralds before, but never a nice ruby that size. You have beautiful jewels!!
hi back to you tourmaline lover!!!!
i have all my jewels imported, not because i enjoy the stress of having them imported, but because it is so very hard to find anything here where i live in canada of any significant size and uniqueness...if that is a word! and since i enjoy having jewels that are unique, i must look far and wide to find them! as for di''s ring..yes, everyone has hear a different size..i know..and i have heard it''s anywere from 5 all the way up to 18 karats! which would be humourus..as it would have been just huge on her little fingers! now, the actual jeweler who made the ring, or who supplied it to the royals said it was between 5 to 9 carast, and since the size appears to be very similar to my own, and mine is 7 carats, i believe it looks to be big simply because of the large diamonds that surround it...for instance, my ruby, the 8 carat, is very very close in actual size to my sapphire, however, it tends to appear a bit bigger only because the stones surrounding it are larger in the ruby ring then in the sapphire ring..so, in my view, i do think di''s ring could very well be around 8 carats, but since in the pics i have seen it is always about the same size as my own, i''m leaning towards about 7...but with only 1 carat difference, at least we''ve narrowed it down from the 5 to 18 guess work eh????? LOL!!!!!! I LOVE JEWELS! and hey, if you want to know anything more about my jewels, please feel free to ask..
tourmaline lover....here''s a cropped pic of my two rings together, so you can kind of see the size is pretty similar, the 8 carat ruby and the 7 carat sapphire, the thing that makes the ruby appear so much bigger are the surrounding stones..they frame the rings differently...sometimes i think about having the sapphire reset with larger stones around it just so it would look larger , but i really love it the way it is though...so, then i change my mind! LOL
Oh, "Show me the Ring" is just another part of the forum. You need to show off your beauties there so more people will see them!! I actually like your ruby better than Diana''s sapphire. No offense to Princess Diana, but I always thought her sapphire looked so dark (maybe it''s just how it photographed). I also love the Sarah Fergusson''s ruby, but yours puts hers to shame!!! Did you get the ruby certified through a major gem lab? It''s gorgeous!
hey tourmaline lover!
Wow, consider yourself very fortunate and of a rare breed (aside from royaltyhey tourmaline lover!
well, i''ll have to go try it then! sounds like fun! and thankyou so much, i''m flattered that you would like my ruby so much! do you have rubies since you love them so? i have to say, i love all three of the big gems, emerald, ruby and sapphire...it''s so hard to choose..i end up wearing them all when really i shouldn''t because it just looks too much! LOL...the ruby is natural, untreated..and came through a certified dealer who is my friend.he is a gemologist...i met him long ago when i had had a large garnet damaged by a jeweler trying to size a ring for me..so i went to him via another friend and asked his advice. he confirmed the stone had been heat fractured..eeek..anywho, he''s great at what he does..now, i''ve studied gems for a long time and i know quite a lot about them and can identify on my own, but it''s always good i think to have a certified gemologist have a look as well!!!!as for rubies...i''ve had several in the past, but this one took the cake! so to speak...
i''ll give the show me the ring thing a try! as for the pic attached, just a great ruby broach! i found no info on it though..but it sure is pretty!
yes, i have seen the prices are amazingly high right now for untreated rubies...i have read that almost all are treated when still rough..but the most common treatment occures in thailand. apparently the rough stones from around the world are sent through there because in thailand they have the world''s best expert heat treaters...if that is a proper term! lol...and also, apparently, in thailand the rubies are also cut, as there they also have some of the world''s best cutters. now for a long period before just very recently, it was accepted that most or even all rubies would go through the heat treatment process and it had absolutely no effect on pricing at all...i have heard that it was expected that rubies were heated..and that it was considered just man finishing what mother nature would have or should have done...Date: 10/13/2008 3:54:03 PM
Author: tourmaline_lover
hey tourmaline lover!
well, i''ll have to go try it then! sounds like fun! and thankyou so much, i''m flattered that you would like my ruby so much! do you have rubies since you love them so? i have to say, i love all three of the big gems, emerald, ruby and sapphire...it''s so hard to choose..i end up wearing them all when really i shouldn''t because it just looks too much! LOL...the ruby is natural, untreated..and came through a certified dealer who is my friend.he is a gemologist...i met him long ago when i had had a large garnet damaged by a jeweler trying to size a ring for me..so i went to him via another friend and asked his advice. he confirmed the stone had been heat fractured..eeek..anywho, he''s great at what he does..now, i''ve studied gems for a long time and i know quite a lot about them and can identify on my own, but it''s always good i think to have a certified gemologist have a look as well!!!!as for rubies...i''ve had several in the past, but this one took the cake! so to speak...
i''ll give the show me the ring thing a try! as for the pic attached, just a great ruby broach! i found no info on it though..but it sure is pretty!
Wow, consider yourself very fortunate and of a rare breed (aside from royalty) that owns a huge large untreated fine Burmese ruby. I will never get one because almost all of them are treated, and the fine ones that are not are worth a King''s ransom, if you can even get one!
weather material is heated in the ground or out doesn''t matter to me..i have another ruby, this one from madagascar, and it is stunning, it was heated, went through thailand and weighs over 7 carats...i love it! i am in the process of getting a setting made for it...i can''t wait! the colour is fabulous and the size perfect, and weather or not it was heated...in ground or out..who cares???and i have one other ruby that is au naturelle..no heating, it''s huge..about 13 carats, but i''s lower quality..very full of inclusions..but i like the greek style ring it''s in, so, as in ancient times, the stone is left alone! the cut isn''t the best either, which makes it appear older, ancient grecian..i like that..
hey tourmaline lover!..ok. i''ll try that coloured stones section..i''m still pretty new at this! it''s fun though! i look forward to it! i''ll try to get some new pics tomorrow when i get a minute, of the other gems as well..and post them..i''ll have to wait and see if we get some good sun light! it''s always nicer to see them in natural light!
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