Tanzanite -- Color Grade

Please post the pictures you are looking at so that we can give you a better response.  Even though this will not replace looking at the stone with the eye, it should give us an idea.  Can you not get the stone sent to you for inspection and then send it back if not acceptable?  (If not, that alone is reason to keep looking!)

Wink

Wink Jones
GG
Winfield's/High Performance Diamonds

Hello Cheri,
Buy what you like, not what everyone else says is best. I ussually first buy the center stone I like the best and then give it to someone to make the piece.  I buy stones when they are cheap with an abundance of them around.  I bought a ton of tanzanite a couple of years ago when most of the major jewelers stopped selling it.  From my sources tanzanite had nothing to do with funding terrorism.  So I bought over 100cts of the very best I could find very cheaply.  Now, when I want to give a present, I take one of the stones and have a piece made. I know a few people that have top tanzanite stones at a reasonable (to me at least) price.  You should look at different stones side by side not go to one place and then another.  You forget the actual color.  I would buy a stone I liked and then contact a good jeweler (like Wink) to make the piece up for me.  The more input you have on the finished piece the more it will be exactly what you want and the more you will love it.  Attached is a picture of the enhancer I had made for my wife.  The tanzanite is 20cts.  Also are pictures of numerous AAA+ tanzanite.  As you can see together some colors do look better than others but separately each would look great.

Wow!  That is a nice collection of tanzanites.

Thaks for sharing!

Wink

Wink Jones
GG
Winfield's/High Performance Diamonds