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Update from previous thread: [URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/sapphire-help-needed-asap-please.169778/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/sapphire-help-needed-asap-please.169778/[/URL]
I sent for the atggems sapphire and it is a beautiful color, but it is just a little under 6.4 mm and I really think I need 6.5 mm after seeing this stone. It will be going in a halo and I don't want the stone to look skimpy in the setting. I might keep it to make a pendant or something, but I have to get my ring stone first. Good communication with Allen Brown.
http://www.atggems.com/Photos_Sapphire2.htm (one at the top is the one I ordered)
I contacted Richard Homer who is also very nice, and he sent me a list of stones in my size range. There are two sapphires at 6.5 and 6.6mm, and they range from $2900 to $3200 for heated. Naturally the cut is stellar (from pictures), but that price seems high to me for heated. And I am fine with heated, but I am not sure about paying $3000 for a sapphire just over a carat unless you tell me I am unrealistic about the price! Obviously Richard's work is exceptional, and I do not mean to downplay that at all. I have never seen a concave cut gem, though, so I don't know what they look like in person. But I do think rounds would benefit from that cut.
Honestly, I cannot afford a top quality, outstanding 3-4 ct. unheated sapphire (and it wouldn't fit this setting anyway!!!). But I do want an excellent one that is going to be a little over a carat at 6.5mm. I've looked at most of the links from the recommended seller list, and I am really out of options other than the Richard Homer stones, which are very special and very expensive! This setting is a fine one, though, and I need an excellent sapphire.
Oh, and Richard does have an aqua my size that would be gorgeous and much more affordable, but I really want a sapphire more (and then I want a pair to make matching earrings)!
This is the $3200 sapphire and the $2900 one is more of a cornflower blue (lighter than this one) and very beautiful.
http://www.webgraphicsengineering.com/Gemstones/detail.cfm?zNum=6156
I really need some advice from those who are knowledgeable about sapphires, please!!!!
I sent for the atggems sapphire and it is a beautiful color, but it is just a little under 6.4 mm and I really think I need 6.5 mm after seeing this stone. It will be going in a halo and I don't want the stone to look skimpy in the setting. I might keep it to make a pendant or something, but I have to get my ring stone first. Good communication with Allen Brown.
http://www.atggems.com/Photos_Sapphire2.htm (one at the top is the one I ordered)
I contacted Richard Homer who is also very nice, and he sent me a list of stones in my size range. There are two sapphires at 6.5 and 6.6mm, and they range from $2900 to $3200 for heated. Naturally the cut is stellar (from pictures), but that price seems high to me for heated. And I am fine with heated, but I am not sure about paying $3000 for a sapphire just over a carat unless you tell me I am unrealistic about the price! Obviously Richard's work is exceptional, and I do not mean to downplay that at all. I have never seen a concave cut gem, though, so I don't know what they look like in person. But I do think rounds would benefit from that cut.
Honestly, I cannot afford a top quality, outstanding 3-4 ct. unheated sapphire (and it wouldn't fit this setting anyway!!!). But I do want an excellent one that is going to be a little over a carat at 6.5mm. I've looked at most of the links from the recommended seller list, and I am really out of options other than the Richard Homer stones, which are very special and very expensive! This setting is a fine one, though, and I need an excellent sapphire.
Oh, and Richard does have an aqua my size that would be gorgeous and much more affordable, but I really want a sapphire more (and then I want a pair to make matching earrings)!
This is the $3200 sapphire and the $2900 one is more of a cornflower blue (lighter than this one) and very beautiful.
http://www.webgraphicsengineering.com/Gemstones/detail.cfm?zNum=6156
I really need some advice from those who are knowledgeable about sapphires, please!!!!