I was bad...

[yanaazul]

I went to the gem and bead show today, looking for 4mm apatite briolette beads, and came home with this:

Madagascar sapphire, 0.61 ct. 5.1mm. I have no idea what this cut is, but it has ten sides and I love it.

So... to Sally for a Lotus, y/y?

 

[Upgradable]

Oh, YES!! I love those Madagascar sapphs! The color is luscious!

 

[yanaazul]

With my Sally Pillbox (both photos in indirect sunlight):

 

[yanaazul]

Direct sunlight. Or maybe just less indirect, facing south-ish at 5:30.

 

[yanaazul]

Crappy bathroom flourescent lighting. Thanks for looking!

 

[Barrett]

nice pics..color looks pretty darn nice..sooo..just wanted a briolette..yea I see how well that went..lolol

 

[Upgradable]

the faceting is beautiful! I think a lotus will allow all those gorgeous facets to shine and sparkle!

 

[marcy]

Very pretty!

 

[T L]

It is very pretty.

 

[yanaazul]

Thanks, everyone! Funny, I didn''t even find apatite briolettes of the shade I was looking for. I can never get out of one of those shows without something I didn''t plan on buying. I must say, though, before I found Pricescope, I''d come home with extra strands of tourmaline rondelles, or something. I never used to look at the loose gemstones!

 

[packrat]

Very pretty blue! I think it would look great in a lotus!

 

[DistinctionJewelry]

Yummmmm! I love the color and cut of that stone.

I just went to a gem show as well, and although I was just planning on buying earring stones, I bought quite a few other things

 

[cellentani]

Wow, great color - nice find! Those gems shows can be dangerous, lol!

 

[oddoneout]

Lovely cut and colour.

 

[platinumrock]

Date: 4/4/2010 1:00:01 PM
Author: oddoneout
Lovely cut and colour.

+1

 

[Novel]

Oooh, fantastic find! Being bad feels so good.

 

[yanaazul]

Date: 4/4/2010 2:21:16 PM
Author: Novel
Oooh, fantastic find! Being bad feels so good.

Hahaha. Yes, it does!

I noticed last night -- and maybe all you sharp-eyed, more knowledgeable people could see this straight off -- there''s no table on the crown, or at least not what is usually considered a table. There is a very tiny flat facet at the top, maybe half a mm. So instead of a flat table, there''s a slight dome with eleven facets -- that teeny top facet which is a pentagon, and ten going around making a star within a pentagon. (Argh, I''m horrible at describing.) I''ve been trying to capture this with my push-here-dummy point-and-shoot camera, but can''t do it...

Anyone have any idea what this faceting pattern is called? Is there even a name? Rose-cut crowns seem to have six facets at top?

 

[kas baby]

hmmm, I have close to zero knowledge about faceting patterns, but I do know that that gem you picked up is BLUE! and gorgeous! I think it would look lovely in the lotus