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.