i got a message from gary
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It is a blowup. He warned me about silk inclusions which do not bother me at all.
He said that the weight loss after recut was only 27%. Had it been round, the weight loss would have been closer to 50%. The package should arrive on Tuesday. It is probably going to be Tuesday evenings, so I shall be able to post pictures on Wedlesday. Hopefully. |
looking forward to loads of RL pics
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I got the stone.
It looks great, and the color is fantastic. It is getting darker so I shall take photos tomorrow morning and this evening. I absolutely love it. Like any oval, it has some areas of extinction but they do not interfere with the overal impression because the color is so rich blue and velvety. I am very happy with it. Here comes my OCD: it is so nice, I start asking myself, is it really unheated? Not Be-treated? It is too beautiful, something must be wrong with it. It has no grey mask, why is it so? Suspicious... Oh, what do I have to tell myself to calm me down? You know my idiosyncrasy towards heated stones, I don't know what to do... I shall post it, can someone calm me down, please? Good that it has inclusions (they are not eye-visible). Color-wise it looks close to what MakingTheGrade's one looks in her photograph. I do not know how hers looks IRL so I can compare only with the photograph. I have not yet looked at it in the evening to see if it shifts to violet or not but so far it is great! And it looks very much like the one in Gary's photo. |
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It''s totally freaking fantastic! I had my eye on that too and was sad when it stopped being available but now i see that good things have come from it and will continue. You are soo lucky! push those evil thoughts away. even in the description online Gary gave more information about the provenance of that fabulous stone than you could ever hope to get at Christie''s. He acquired it about as early in the chain of custody as one possibly could. Im sure he examined it carefully and it was good enough for him. Get a cert at GIA for what $150? but most of all enjoy that amazing stone and all the jealous jaw-droppings!!
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