Show me your faint/light brown diamonds!

Written by Andelain » November 30th, 2010, 3:51 pm:I've always thought that light brown could be very pretty. I have a light brown stone that I'm fairly sure if off the alphabet and if it were yellow instead of brown would have set me back some serious $$$. But since it's brown I didn't pay much for it at all. I really like the color. It's at WF getting a new home right now.

Written by davi_el_mejor » November 30th, 2010, 9:12 pm:It should also be mentioned that blue fluor doesn't always help a brown tinted stone face up whiter (at least not in my brownish diamond). Perhaps mine is beyond the range of lettered grading but it has pretty strong fluor and still is somewhat noticeably brown next to a white diamond. The left is about a J with strong blue fluor center is the brown with strong blue fluor and the right is a H-I with no fluor. The picture was taken in direct sunlight.

The diamonds fluor shot

Written by yingh » August 3rd, 2010, 10:45 am:The vendor was running a summer sale, and reading everyone here talking about color diamonds, so I bit the bullet and bought my first color diamond (probrobably will be my last for a long whie due to $$$$)

http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/25.htm

It is 1.04ct, SI2, oval cut, IGI certified to be light brown.

Here are the vendor pictures, including a handshot that I requested. I will say that they are pretty accurate, except a bit darker than IRL.

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sunlight (the blue is a reflection of the shirt I was wearing)

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incandescent lighting

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when it was unset

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looking peachy here

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Written by Yssie » September 19th, 2011, 5:51 pm:Some thoughts on the stones themselves:

I'm really enjoying playing with them Loose diamonds are so much fun to fiddle with! They're so similar to my RBs in some ways, and so different in others - and in this size those similarities and differences become really striking, since the facet pattern is so easy to see - I can't say I could've made some of these observations with my 0.5ers.

I don't know what the best labels are (maybe someone with more knowledge can help me with that?), but I would call one an OEC and one more OMC-ey. The former has quite a precise snowflake pattern, the latter's faceting is much more random - it's quite amazing, really, how *different* they look up close despite being the same size/colour/genre - no lower girdle facets under the table in either!

Written by evergreen » January 25th, 2012, 11:15 am:From Yingh:

Written by yingh » August 3rd, 2010, 10:45 am:The vendor was running a summer sale, and reading everyone here talking about color diamonds, so I bit the bullet and bought my first color diamond (probrobably will be my last for a long whie due to $$$$)

http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/25.htm

It is 1.04ct, SI2, oval cut, IGI certified to be light brown.

Here are the vendor pictures, including a handshot that I requested. I will say that they are pretty accurate, except a bit darker than IRL.

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Written by jrich » January 26th, 2012, 1:14 pm:Here is MissPrudentials thread on her earrings, but the pictures aren't showing up for me. Would love to see these as well!

http://www.pricescope.com/forum/show-me-the-ring/3-14cttw-diamond-studs-pictures-t40897-30.html

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by Richard Sherwood » 06 Feb 2003 11:45
The champagne diamond color scale, also known as the Argyle Scale because the Australian Argyle Mine produces so many champagnes and originated the scale, progresses from lighter (C1) tones to darker tones (up to C7).

The tones are comparable to the following GIA grading:

C1 ("light champagne"): GIA N,O,P,Q color
C2 ("light champagne"): GIA R,S,T,U,V color
C3 ("medium champagne"): GIA W,X color
C4 ("medium champagne"): GIA Y,Z color
C5 ("dark champagne"): GIA fancy brown
C6 ("dark champagne"): GIA fancy brown to fancy dark brown
C7 ("fancy cognac"): GIA fancy dark brown

The prettiest and most valuable colors usually seem to fall in the C6 range, sometimes the C7 range. The C7 range can often be too saturated a brown, with a resultant drop in per carat price.

If a brown stone is accented with a pleasing secondary hue, such as orange, the price increases.

Written by acebruin » January 26th, 2012, 9:44 pm:2.00 U-V light brown cushion...

Written by acebruin » January 26th, 2012, 9:44 pm:2.00 U-V light brown cushion...

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