Show your Star sapphires and rubies

[stracci2000]

This, shown before, is not quite complete:
It's next to impossible to make the stars align in a group photo...
Here are the others:


My favourite, and the best by conventional standards, is the purple sapphire (above, right).

The lower stone is 4-ray star garnet that I've never shown before because it's not really PS quality. The cool feature of star garnet (for nerds) is that it has six separate star axes. This high-domed stone shows them all. But not in one photo.

You will notice that not one of my star stones is top quality by conventional standards. (The purple sapphire comes closest.) Cool stones are much more budget-friendly that good ones...


Thank you! As I said, 'unusual' is budget friendly...


Yes! It's not my best stone, but it is the most fascinating. I still don't understand the weird waviness.

What an amazing collection! I love them all

 

[Starstruck8]

I love the soft pink one on your ring finger.

That was the gateway drug. It was the first piece of 'fine jewellery' that I ever bought. It's still a favourite. It sometimes shows a magic soft pink glow on the side opposite the light:

(The dark stripe at top left is strong zoning, not an inclusion.)

How do you decide which to wear on any given day?

That's just the star stones! I also have many other cabs and faceted stones...

I wish you would make a thread about your 4-ray star garnet! I would love to see it showing off all its axes.

The weather not the best at the moment. And you can only see one star at a time. But I will see what I can do in the next few days.

 

[Lexililac]

2.5ct. star ruby with blue zonings and hexagon zoned "milk". Very sharp and strong star!

 

[empliau]

9.7 carat star ruby, anyone?

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/platinum-star-ruby-and-diamond-ring-16-c-7084a6bb4c?objectID=196001405&algIndex=upcoming_lots_lotNumber_asc_prod&queryID=1aa471becc73e9eda8a1c5e171b9096e

 

[lovedogs]

So I hadn’t realized that lab star rubies had come such a long way since I grew up with the opaque Lindy stars you could spot a mile away. This one from Gary is lovely and translucent though. Had no idea this was an option until I saw it on his site so thought I’d share in case anyone was looking for a holy grail star gem but can’t find or spend for an earth mined one lol. I hope Gary sells more of these in the future!

Compared to my earth mined star sapphire

Sorry, I know im quoting a very old post. But do you happen to have a video of the lab star sapphire? I really love this--its much more translucent than I wojld have thojgjt possible for a lab!

 

[MakingTheGrade]

Sorry, I know im quoting a very old post. But do you happen to have a video of the lab star sapphire? I really love this--its much more translucent than I wojld have thojgjt possible for a lab!

Hi! Hmm I don’t but I can probably make one sometime this week

 

[fiona00004]

This star sapphire ring had a reno:

Before:



After:


All bought preloved. Bought a plain wedding band in a matching gold and used it to change the shank on the ring. Much better!

 

[fiona00004]

One more of this one.

 

[glitterata]

I just scored a vintage (mid-20th century) Japanese natural star ruby ring from Poshmark for a song:

https://imgur.com/untos4n

Obviously it's not the greatest quality--the star is not well centered, and the inclusions, fractures, etc. are pretty intense--but I do love the color and general feel of the thing.