Agneau
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2012
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I promise I will take pictures of the ring once it is daytime (tomorrow) and I will post them. This may be tl;dr but I appreciate your time!
I am so worried about my rubies being lead/glass whatever filled just because it exists and I am not educated enough to tell the difference. I have been searching the internet like crazy to figure out if I can tell the difference myself with a loupe and light... I can't afford to send the ring off right now (or in the near future) to be checked.
My SO and I bought a ruby eternity band last year. It's been in hiding from me until now. I have been learning about gemstones for a while before we bought the ring, but I was learning more about opals and not corundum. The jeweler assured me she works with the most natural stones she can get. This particular ring wasn't made by her but by a jeweler designer in California (I think she said Cali).
Now that the ring is in my possession for a while I have looped it to check it out. I was hoping you can check it out with me...
First and foremost I need to make sure they are not filled or any other crazy treatment that would make me cry.
And if they are't heated that would be awesome, but I am not counting on it (I read that you can sometimes tell heating by louping the stone but I don't know for sure about that).
About the rubies:
The rubies are oval cabs, about 5mm by 3ish mm each. They are purplish-red.
Here is what I see under a loupe:
The rubies are translucent (some more opaque than others but they all have a glow and no cab is completely opaque). The outside is polished nicely.. no surface cracks or pitting.
The inclusions inside the ruby look like see-through silk fabric that is flowing and folding over itself creating more opaque areas and more transparent areas where there is less silk "fabric."
What do you guys think?
Again, I know there is only so much we can know outside of sending it to a trained gemologist (which will happen some day), but I appreciate your knowledge/input.
I am so worried about my rubies being lead/glass whatever filled just because it exists and I am not educated enough to tell the difference. I have been searching the internet like crazy to figure out if I can tell the difference myself with a loupe and light... I can't afford to send the ring off right now (or in the near future) to be checked.
My SO and I bought a ruby eternity band last year. It's been in hiding from me until now. I have been learning about gemstones for a while before we bought the ring, but I was learning more about opals and not corundum. The jeweler assured me she works with the most natural stones she can get. This particular ring wasn't made by her but by a jeweler designer in California (I think she said Cali).
Now that the ring is in my possession for a while I have looped it to check it out. I was hoping you can check it out with me...
First and foremost I need to make sure they are not filled or any other crazy treatment that would make me cry.
And if they are't heated that would be awesome, but I am not counting on it (I read that you can sometimes tell heating by louping the stone but I don't know for sure about that).
About the rubies:
The rubies are oval cabs, about 5mm by 3ish mm each. They are purplish-red.
Here is what I see under a loupe:
The rubies are translucent (some more opaque than others but they all have a glow and no cab is completely opaque). The outside is polished nicely.. no surface cracks or pitting.
The inclusions inside the ruby look like see-through silk fabric that is flowing and folding over itself creating more opaque areas and more transparent areas where there is less silk "fabric."
What do you guys think?
Again, I know there is only so much we can know outside of sending it to a trained gemologist (which will happen some day), but I appreciate your knowledge/input.
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