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Rough_Rock
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Thank you. I felt the same about lighting and camera but wasn’t able to put it into words as eloquently as you did. I know unheated rubies and sapphires are tricky and can be expensive. Like you said it’s a label and I like it a lot regardless. It looks quite transparent in the center but no stone is perfect. I will ask for more photos and video.Good question, this one walks the line. Personally, I would say it’s a pink-red ruby. But ultimately it’s just a label. Different labs will draw the line differently.
Note that lighting conditions and background will impact the way the stone looks on camera. My gut feeling is that it will look a smidge less red IRL than on the pictures you posted. Likely a strong blob of color in direct sunlight, and a deeper, closer to cool red color at sunrise/sunset - ruby magic.
If you want neon, you are bound to have a not insignificant amount of pink, unless you find one of those one in a million true vivid red rubies with medium saturation, perfect cut and just the right amount of silk. A unicorn really.
Btw, I like it a lot. Can you return it if you don’t love it?
To add: no windows that I can see. And no extinction either. Very nice stone!
It’s hard to tell from two photos, you really need to see it in person and in your lighting conditions.
Don’t they say the seller calls it ruby, the buyer calls it sapphire! Thats because if it gets classed as a ruby it will probably be worth more than as a pink sapphire.
Different labs have different colour criteria, also in some cultures pink sapphires are called rubies regardless. I believe it was “western influence” that wanted the differentiation between the two.