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Well, now that she's family, you need to give her a name.
@Autumn in New England -
Congratulations! I LOVE it! What a beauty she is! Do you have any setting ideas for your new ViP*?
*Viotel Pearregarde / Very important Pear
PURPLE FCD???
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I seriously cannot wait to see this! I'm already getting prepared to have my mind blown!!
<3
Thank you! So Inken typically only works with her own gems, because she is quite busy and I'm sure wants to make certain those who purchase her stones are taken care of first. But she has generously offered to set it, and we do have a design in mind. The interesting part is I think we're going to try to work in a couple of small purple FCDs. So we shall see.
P.S. Inken also has an amazing... and I mean AMAZING... 10ct. untreated, certified lavender sapphire for sale, if anyone is interested. It is not yet listed, but is TDF and I wish it were mine. The end.
Purple FCDs sounds amazing.
Been dying to share this tiny chip of a purple FCD with a pure intense purple color grading somewhere. I think its the only one I've seen of this color grading. Though I think the much more affordable pinkish purples would compliment your spinel better luckily.
Rare Pure Purple Diamond - 0.05ct Natural Loose Fancy Intense Purple Color GIA | eBay
The rarity of Fancy Intense Purple diamonds places them among the most sought-after and exclusive gems globally, making this particular diamond a symbol of luxury, sophistication, and rarity. Color - Fancy Intense Purple - Extreamly Rare!www.ebay.com
Oh my goodness!! This is going to look amazing! I wish you could halo it, but then you really *would* have to sell your house!!
I did end up buying a stone... let me describe my desperation level. I wired $10k (we negotiated for weeks down from a $13k starting price) to a vendor in Vietnam I'd never dealt with before. How's that for s̶t̶u̶p̶i̶d̶i̶t̶y̶ trust? It's the sort of thing I would fervently caution newbies against. Do as I say, not as I do.Anyway, it came with a Guild report, but I will recertify out of an abundance of caution.
The specs:
~3.37ct.
~13.40 x 7.36 x 4.71mm
~Almost loupe clean
~Luc Yen origin
My appraisal:
~Indoors... pure purple base with pink flashes... zero gray.
~Outdoors... she shifts to a truer violet-lavender... color remains crisp.
~The native cut leaves something to be desired. She has a couple of open facets at the base of the keel/culet. And as with most pears (especially elongated ones), she has a bit of a bow-tie and tilt window. If she were precision cut or even had a really high-quality native cut, she'd be ideal (IMO).
Final grade:
~Cut is a 7/10 as native cuts go.
~Color is a 9/10 for this material.
~Clarity is a 10/10 for this material.
It would be at this point that I'd start rummaging through the kitchen cabinets for the aluminum foil.
The window is tiny, it wouldn't bother me. Such a tiny window is usually unnoticeable even on skin, you have to hold the stone up to look through it or place it on black background to see it.
The bowtie is... would it be weird to say it has an attractive shape? I wonder what being surrounded by reflective material might do for its colour. It doesn't need much to look perfect, to be honest.
i think durring the Victorian period some quite liked the bowtie look