True cornflower blue sapphire finds. Post here.

[Rubybrick]

These are stunning.
This is the setting I dream of for my pair (when I win the lottery probably)

Thanks Bron, with you amazing pair I would not Be patient enough to wait for the lottery
The color looks in the same tone for our gems, how would you describe the color?

 

[voce]

It is so interesting to see what the different kinds of blue meant to different people. I guess that is why CS is so personal, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder! When I got mine I judged wanted an intense and gravitating color, I didn’t really know which blue it falls under... I guess I would describe it as medium true blue since it doesn’t really go dark? What do you think? The photo is taken under indoor natural light.

I would say this is royal blue.

 

[icy_jade]

I was looking at charts and they all have different names!

So I’m still confused. Is there somewhere where the correct terminology with sample pics is posted?

Are these charts any good? The names seem to differ between sellers so is really confusing to me...

 

[bludiva]

I think sapphires change so much depending on the lighting. Sometimes I think mine is cornflower blue, but in some lighting, the shade of blue goes lighter, especially indoors. It never blacks out. The shade of blue just changes.o (Sorry my fingernails look gross in 3rd pic, I was selling cherries.)

I love the color of this stone so much

 

[whitewave]

I have to run— maybe check Lotus report web page?

 

[qubitasaurus]

Cornflower blue always makes me think about the colour of the corn flowers on all that glitters. I would love to own something in this exact colour, but ir isnt an easy search. Art Nouveau's sapphire is a close match.

 

[Jbows]

Idk, it seems like it depends on lighting. I wanted a cornflower blue, which to me means a bright blue, but I think I ended up with medium blue? Maybe? It’s fun though... a new blue in every light. I visited the Pacific NW a while ago and it looked like my second picture the entire time. But, in direct sunlight it deepens and the velvety blue comes out.

 

[voce]

Idk, it seems like it depends on lighting. I wanted a cornflower blue, which to me means a bright blue, but I think I ended up with medium blue? Maybe? It’s fun though... a new blue in every light. I visited the Pacific NW a while ago and it looked like my second picture the entire time. But, in direct sunlight it deepens and the velvety blue comes out.

Your sapphire is beautiful. Your second picture shows the blue that I consider cornflower blue in stock photos. The velvety blue is also trade ideal!

 

[Wanaka]

This is a Montana from Dana Reynolds that I very nearly had shipped to me, and I think @stonewell had IRL for a bit before returning. The description says "denim blue", but is that the same as cornflower blue? It is a very intense blue hue (if I am using that term correctly?)

https://www.mastercutgems.com/Produ...re_Intense_Blue_0_77_carat-Gem.php?FromPage=1

 

[voce]

This is a Montana from Dana Reynolds that I very nearly had shipped to me, and I think @stonewell had IRL for a bit before returning. The description says "denim blue", but is that the same as cornflower blue? It is a very intense blue hue (if I am using that term correctly?)

https://www.mastercutgems.com/Produ...re_Intense_Blue_0_77_carat-Gem.php?FromPage=1

The picture you posted here, that gem also toes the line between cornflower and royal. However, when you follow the link and see the other photos of this gem, those look darker, so I think Dana Reynolds is right in calling it an intense royal blue. It probably only looks like the handshot in good lighting, so that perhaps most of the time it looks a darker royal blue instead of cornflower blue.

 

[Bron357]

More of my pretty pair. Being just over 9mm each, too big for making into diamond halo studs.
Colour, depends on light, they can flash an almost neon blue it I’d say Royal blue colour.
So it’s a drop style I need with plenty of decent size diamond bling or they’ll look like I went “el cheapo”.
If they weren’t such a close pair (colour and size) I’d be selling one and making a ring with the other. I don’t think I could handle the “guilt” if I split them, it’s so hard to find nicely matched blue sapphires.

 

[voce]

@Wanaka I did a quick search on Etsy for 7mm unheated sapphire because I saw your other thread, and, well, I don't know if these are, in fact, unheated, but this vendor has an interesting stone that looks denim blue in fluorescent lighting and cornflower blue outdoors.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/536051200/loose-blue-sapphire-natural-blue

@Bron357 yeah, your pair looks like an intense royal blue under the Lotus designation. I can feel your dilemma as to how to set it. 9mm is huge!
NSC has a pair of earrings with 8mm sapphires. You can see how huge they look on the model's ear. Yours would be even larger.
https://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/3.82ct-blue-sapphire-earring-j5836-/

 

[Wanaka]

More of my pretty pair. Being just over 9mm each, too big for making into diamond halo studs.
Colour, depends on light, they can flash an almost neon blue it I’d say Royal blue colour.
So it’s a drop style I need with plenty of decent size diamond bling or they’ll look like I went “el cheapo”.
If they weren’t such a close pair (colour and size) I’d be selling one and making a ring with the other. I don’t think I could handle the “guilt” if I split them, it’s so hard to find nicely matched blue sapphires.

Ahh Bron that is a bummer that they are too big to make into studs! They are gorgeous and if you ever do break them up, holla over the Tasman will ya? But I definitely agree about not splitting them up, I honestly would have thought they came from the same piece of rough. Size and colour matching are sooo spot on with these guys!

 

[Bron357]

@Wanaka I did a quick search on Etsy for 7mm unheated sapphire because I saw your other thread, and, well, I don't know if these are, in fact, unheated, but this vendor has an interesting stone that looks denim blue in fluorescent lighting and cornflower blue outdoors.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/536051200/loose-blue-sapphire-natural-blue

@Bron357 yeah, your pair looks like an intense royal blue under the Lotus designation. I can feel your dilemma as to how to set it. 9mm is huge!
NSC has a pair of earrings with 8mm sapphires. You can see how huge they look on the model's ear. Yours would be even larger.
https://www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com/3.82ct-blue-sapphire-earring-j5836-/

OMG just had a heart attack.
The “smaller pair” in a cushion shape (I think round is nicer) with one with quite obvious zoning is $25,000 AUD.
Are they serious!
I mean, wow. Talk about being “more than the sum of the parts”!

 

[Wanaka]

@Wanaka I did a quick search on Etsy for 7mm unheated sapphire because I saw your other thread, and, well, I don't know if these are, in fact, unheated, but this vendor has an interesting stone that looks denim blue in fluorescent lighting and cornflower blue outdoors.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/536051200/loose-blue-sapphire-natural-blue

Oh wow thanks @voce for thinking of me. This is quite pretty but I need to be good now (as per explanation on other thread). Mind you, I can see that the seller is located in Melbourne and also has a few other interesting stones... oh dear here I go down the rabbit hole

 

[voce]

OMG just had a heart attack.
The “smaller pair” in a cushion shape (I think round is nicer) with one with quite obvious zoning is $25,000 AUD.
Are they serious!
I mean, wow. Talk about being “more than the sum of the parts”!

Jewelers in NYC can clearly wait for these baubles to sit in their inventory for 5-10 years before some rich person walks in and drops money into their laps. I must thank PS for educating me on how not to pay astronomical prices on jewellery/gemstones I like.

Oh wow thanks @voce for thinking of me. This is quite pretty but I need to be good now (as per explanation on other thread). Mind you, I can see that the seller is located in Melbourne and also has a few other interesting stones... oh dear here I go down the rabbit hole

Haha well then in that case you had better be good! Set the sapphire you already have before you acquire any more! Otherwise, you'll be sitting on a pile of loose stones without having money to turn them into wearable pretties. My situation at the moment.
Actually, it's not like I have THAT many stones compared to a lot of others in CS forums. I only started collecting gemstones this year.

 

[Burmesedaze]

The mine owner's personal collection. This is considered cornflower blue in Burma unheated. Nfs.



My much humbler and affordable blue. It shifts under different lights, even pulling a tad purple sometimes.

 

[Burmesedaze]

The Mogok mine the large sapphires in my previous post are from.

 

[missy]

Not sure what blue color the sapphires are considered in this antique diamond and sapphire earring pair I love They are medium blue IRL so too dark to be cornflower blue I think.

 

[missy]

The Mogok mine the large sapphires in my previous post are from.

Wow! Love this.

 

[Bluegemz]

Heres mine, a medium blue from Ceylon. Color is hard because the color hue of cornflower can be tinted, shaded or more saturated, with the same color. which creates a range. It means a lot of things to different people. I never thought of mine as cornflower because when it reflects light, it can shift in hue and in lightness (tint). When I imagine the cornflower color, I imagine not the darkest blue, more medium with a touch of lavender in it, without much green, like the flower.

 

[Bluegemz]

 

[missy]

Heres mine, a medium blue from Ceylon. Color is hard because the color hue of cornflower can be tinted, shaded or more saturated, with the same color. which creates a range. It means a lot of things to different people. I never thought of mine as cornflower because when it reflects light, it can shift in hue and in lightness (tint). When I imagine the cornflower color, I imagine not the darkest blue, more medium with a touch of lavender in it, without green, like the flower.

Stunning ring @Bluegemz.

 

[Bluegemz]

Stunning ring @Bluegemz.

Thankyou, Missy. Those are some amazing earrings you have too!

 

[Burmesedaze]

Not sure what blue color the sapphires are considered in this antique diamond and sapphire earring pair I love They are medium blue IRL so too dark to be cornflower blue I think.

Close ups, pretty pretty please?

 

[Bluegemz]

This sapphire pendant which I recently gifted to my eldest daughter ( as a going gift before she studies overseas for a year) is more cornflower blue in my interpretation than my ring, but still not cornflower.

 

[Jbows]

Your sapphire is beautiful. Your second picture shows the blue that I consider cornflower blue in stock photos. The velvety blue is also trade ideal!

Thank you! I love how sapphires change colors and how they have their own characters!

This sapphire pendant which I recently gifted to my eldest daughter ( as a going gift before she studies overseas for a year) is more cornflower blue in my interpretation than my ring, but still not cornflower.

...can I be your daughter too?

 

[Bluegemz]

Thank you! I love how sapphires change colors and how they have their own characters!

...can I be your daughter too?

It’s a story...I got the pendant in Rome in 2000 when I was pregnant with her, before I knew, so I felt that it would be fitting to give it to her for this period of transition into adulthood.

 

[Bluegemz]

@Jbows , the color of your sapphire is absolutely astounding. Such intensity and vibrancy.

 

[torontocatlady]

@Bron357 these are the perfect colour - I guess everyone has a different idea of whats ideal but dang.. breathtaking. Can't wait to see what you do with them! I agree - the more diamond bling the better

Would you guys suppose that trade ideal is more cornflower or royal blue? I always seem to come back to acinom's as being the perfect colour. Theres another amazing sapphire here on PS, I just cannot remember white belongs to. My memory is not what it used to be *sigh*