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have you posted your ring deny? i don''t remember seeing it (and would really like to!)Date: 5/25/2005 6:53:04 PM
Author: denyRN
As a few of you know, I currently had my three stone diamond sides changed to sapphires. My center is 1.52 and the sapphires are appx 5mm each. My jewler showed me sapphires from $100 to $323 each. The difference in a lower quality sapphire and the top quality is really amazing when you see them in person. The top quality are so bright and beautiful where the lower quality look so dark and black almost.
I chose the top quality for my two sapphires. I don''t mean to brag, but they are absolutely beautiful stones. I have had the sapphires about five months now and still can''t get over how bright and beautiful they look in the setting.
I paid $538 for the pair.
Maybe you could email them to someone and they could try? I would be willing to give it a shot.Date: 5/25/2005 7:00:27 PM
Author: denyRN
I have tried many times but get error each time. My husband who knows a lot about computers can't get it to work either. I have so many pictures but can't get them on here!
If you consider our Reddestone blue sapphire to be among the best Australia can offer, then we are talking "top quality". A lot of our production has little to no green cross table and a very good royal blue colour but we can not get anywhere near the kind of prices all of you are talking about. A good friend of ours who owns a mine nearby to us had a visit from a Sri Lankan miner last week - a) he was amazed at the size of the resource our friend was operating, and b) he was absolutely staggered at the low prices we were getting - ie. when we can get a buyer to make any kind of offer at all. Much of this conversation took place over a table of good quality mine run sapphire so the fellow could see for himself what kind of sapphire was being produced. Unfortunately he was not a buyer but was looking for some advice on machinery and equipment so the Australian sapphire industry must stagger on and hope that things improve one day. It cant come soon enough for us!Date: 5/25/2005 6:53:37 AM
Author: Richard W. Wise
Andrew,
Are we talking ''top quality'' Australian here? Given that the weight will vary seems to me that your price is too low for a fine heated royal blue with no green or gray.
In my view, everything pictured is a bit light in tone to be considered top quality
Richard