pictures of my demantoid (cut!)

[Arkteia]

Since today is "demantoid day" I decided to post pictures of my demantoid pendant - confirmed by GIA as Russian demantoid, with horsetail inclusions and unheated. Please keep in mind that most of my photographs were done at night and hard as I tried, I could not avoid shadow. IRL, it has no extinction and is all bright. Also, no yellow, very bright green. If any of my stones has "neon-like" quality to it it''s this demantoid. Just because of brightness.

 

[Arkteia]

I don''t know why it looks so yellow when uploaded.

 

[Arkteia]

Know why! It is the lamp - the paper underneath it is totally white IRL

 

[Arkteia]

It is much greener than in previous picture

 

[Pandora II]

Beautiful!

I love Demantoids

What are the specs on the stone?

 

[Arkteia]

No yellow flashes in rela life, swear!

 

[PumpkinPie]

fabulous!

 

[Arkteia]

more..

 

[Arkteia]

sorry if the pics are repeating

 

[T L]

Very nice demantoid. What are the specs on it?

 

[Arkteia]

some more...

 

[Arkteia]

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[baby nurse]

Oh wow, it''s beautiful

I love demantoid! Pretty setting-- I''m a big fan of yellow gold.

 

[Arkteia]

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[Arkteia]

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[Arkteia]

last evening

 

[Arkteia]

Daytime - very poorly since we had no sun especially no direct sun
I tried...

 

[Arkteia]

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[Arkteia]

Here is the stone looking on the table, far away from the sun and there are only a few rays coming into the room

 

[Indylady]

Very, very pretty Crasru!

 

[Arkteia]

Now the light was horrible - hard as I tried I could not remove the "head " of the camera so it was semi-shade. There is no extinction; the blacks are shadows from the camera. And it is not yellowish nor is dark-blue; no secondary blue modifiers but it doesn''t look like a peridot either.
I had several to choose from. Some of them were darker and the color was better. But I sent them all to GIA and only this one came back as unheated (they were all sold as unheated). So I chose this one. The cut is round (the best!). It is very brilliant.

I am going to look through my files to give you the exact specs.

 

[Arkteia]

Here are the specs:

It is a 2.33 ct. natural Russian demantoid with classical "horsetail inclusions"; approx. 8.16 mm in diameter. Unheated. Set in a pendant with F-G diamonds. I asked for a larger bail because I wanted to wear it on an omega chain. Later I realized that omega doesn''t work well with it. Still looking for the best chain.

But I got what I wanted, I think. A beautiful very bright green stone, with perfect brilliancy and unheated!

 

[cellentani]

A 2.33ct demantiod?? Holy smokes - that''s huge! Very nice color, and I love the pendant design. Can you wear the enhancer on a strand of pearls (or other beads)?

 

[Arkteia]

I can wear it on a strand of pearls because it opens in the back - but I do not have a strand of pearls! Or rather, I have two, of poor quality. And since I am not a pearl person, I am not going to buy pearls just for the pendant. Although, come to think of it, I have a strand of nice artificial pearls and I could use it.

 

[xlent]

Nice pictures!

 

[marcy]

Very pretty!

 

[MakingTheGrade]

It''s beautiful!!

I wanna come play in your jewelery box some day!

 

[Arkteia]

Date: 3/15/2010 11:00:24 PM
Author: MakingTheGrade
It''s beautiful!!


I wanna come play in your jewelery box some day!

OK, MakingTheGrade, let''s make a playdate. You come with your own jewelry box, too! Ice cream''s on me.

 

[ma re]

Beautiful stone in a beautiful pendant! Enjoy it!

 

[chrono]

Crasru,
Your photography is improving.

I can see some dispersion coming off the demantoid and it''s a lovely deep rich green.