What do you think of this sapphire color?

[Seaglow]

I just bought 4 eye clean unheated sapphires originating from Ilakaka, Madagascar, which I selected from a lot.

Though the pink, blue, and orange have definitive colors, one color with a more higher price per carat compared to the pink and blue I acquired struck me at the store. With the lights of the store, it appeared very light champagne with flashes in the middle of pale green, very much looking bi-colored. The stone was very bright, almost diamond like in appearance. I checked in another lighting condition outside the store and the stone remained bright, with the same champagne color. The stone is 1.59 cts.

Then I went home and checked with my LED lamp and the color is not as I have seen it in the store. It's now like light yellowish gray. In fluorescent lighting, it looks more like colorless with a hint of gray, and in diffused white light, it looks greenish yellow. Now I have an option to change it to a purple 2+ carat pear unheated purple, also eye clean, at the same price, but not sure if I should?

Has anyone seen this color in sapphire?

I would like to hear your thoughts!

Here are the photos. First 3 photos under LED lamp and next 3 in diffused lighting.

 

[Bex]

I think it's an interesting color, but one that is more common in many other (cheaper!) stones. For a sapphire, I think I'd prefer the 2ct purple one instead!

 

[pregcurious]

I would prefer the unheated purple, if it doesn't black out.

 

[Burmesedaze]

Showed my local jewellers the photos. They said interesting colour, not seen the likes of here. But, not a "precious" looking colour. They'd prefer other shades of possible.

Depends on what you are buying or collecting it for?

 

[Seaglow]

Thank you for the feedback!

I didn't like the color in sunlight. It was a light yellowish sage green. Lol. So I'll change it to the purple or an 18k gold pendant with Thai sapphires but old heat (not BE) yellow and green sapphires with orange melees.

The vendor is a bit different on this one....she had a bag of sapphire rough and had it cut and sells them not by color...but by size and acquisition price. Thus I picked up the nice smaller pink and blue stones in the lot (which are actually the bigger saturated ones, saturated at least for African stones!) ...and the washed out stone turned out higher in price because it exceeded 1.5 carats...the purple was more affordable though because it had a better acquisition cost and the pendant as well because the stones are locally mined.

Burmesedaze,
Yes, this color seem to occur in African and Montana stones but not in Burmese. I wanted it for collection, but I want nice stones that I can make nice jewellery in case I decide to eventually. And though the stone is a curiousity and very brilliant in incandescent lighting, the color in natural daylight does not work for me.

 

[Seaglow]

So I replaced the stone finally. I checked the 2 carat violet sapphire (not purple) and a 2.5 carat blue one but they don't look saturated. There are smaller purple ones at 1 carat and about 1.29carats but I decided to take the pendant instead.

Here is a photo of the stones I chose from....the stone for replacement is on the top right.... Again being a chameleon with a different color. I almost chose the 1 carat emerald cut purple but I felt I had better rhodolites than the stone.

So I instead got an 18k gold pendant with a heated 1.29cts. Thai yellow sapphire (though windowed but the design matches my padparadscha ring). The greens are also Thai. There's a diamond melee but the orange is unfortunately from Songea and not a Thai sapphire...so the orange melees are for sure BE treated.