Beautiful stone!When I say highly transparent, this is the standard I have. You can see the reflection of the grooves of the tweezers in the stone and it has a ‘crisp’ feel to it. I know pigeon’s blood has a bad rap but this is a GRS pigeon’s blood. Most pigeon’s blood are darker than this. I took a photo with a LED lamp from afar, then drew the light closer. It’s a very bright red up close.
I got a better photo of my beloved little oval spinel, taken outdoors. This is how I usually wear it. It's definitely not a "fine"stone, but I still love it!
This thread has been fun to read. I can't wait to see these beautiful rubies once you receive them!!!
I keep talking about my perfect red, and here is my wish... a red Burmese ruby like this. This is my red, with the drop of orange!
but you probably know which one I'm talking about)
this is my spinel (well ok there's 2
Its hard to convince folks that every red stone is NOT a damn ruby....lol I recall when I had it set, the jeweler I took it to was mighty surprised it wasn't a ruby!
The spinel in question below is a bit less than 3cts and from the same area that those lovely hot pink mehenges came from. I think they produced pinks and reds. Its very silky (which I love but might be too much for some folks) but when that sun is out.... "BAM!" looks lit from within. And its great looking in clubs!!! (Though down here "clubbing" is relative. I went to a restaurant that was pretty much like a club with all the black lights everywhere)
These are older pics but all of these are in natural light situations, no high sunlight and of course the much necessary black light pic! Its hard for me to capture in lot of sunlight and makes my sensor go crazy. And the gem brief from AGL just said "red" for color.
Rubies and spinel don't exactly look alike, at least not to me. You have to decide what you really want. If you want a ruby and thats what scratches the itch, then stick with that. Don't get a spinel thinking it will do that for you even though you can get some down right lovely ones!
Amazing eye candy!!!I have both, some of the truly neon "Jedi" and red Mahenges are far rarer (particularly clean ones in larger sizes) IMHO than rubies are. I was given a pigeon's blood (marketing term because it can encompass a range of colours) ruby by my husband that my MIL picked out, many years ago. It's set in a bezel and it's blaaah I never wear it because it's way too dark for my taste and unless you are in really great lighting or sunlight that is the only time you get beautiful flashes of red.
I agree with the others just find something in a colour you love provided it's not filled with glass or heavily treated colour is king. Pics - Burmese red "Jedi" and the bigger oval is a fire engine red Mahenge. Trays of spinels. I have more rubies but don't have many pics of them, below is a pair of red glowy heat only Burmese rubies and a black spinel.
Rubellite can be irradiated, so make sure you know your vendor well, since irradiated stones are not detected as far as I know. Tourmaline in general is much less durable than either corundum or spinel. They also do not have red fluorescence in the sun, which gives most rubies and reddish spinels an especially beautiful glow outside. However a fine pink or red tourmaline can be very beautiful. I just wanted to provide words of caution when considering a red tourmaline or rubellite.
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