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Since we officially have a thread I'll post my one and only
Spessy here!
Its a tiny gal coming in at 6x4mm but has that delicious orange
soda coloring that I love!
Someday I'd like to bezel it in a simple EW setting in yellow gold and stack it with another tiny simple bezeled ring that I own that has a purple star sapphire!
Until then I'm on the lookout for my dream spess, which would basically have the same coloring but in the 3+ carat range.
@Bluegemz That beaded necklace and that cab pair look like yummy tangerine gumdrops! Mmm
& everytime you post your bracelet my knees get weak! That color pairing is just to die for!
Any ideas yet of how you'd like to set your new spess?
Here is @NKOTB dream spess ring, which I think is also most of our dream spess ring as well! It is just stunning!
Here is @NKOTB dream spess ring, which I think is also most of our dream spess ring as well! It is just stunning!
So lovely!
These are my two newest ones. Left is included, but glows like crazy! Right was from Tucson.
An old purchase. Dark, but has lovely orange highlights and sparkles.
Spess and spinel ring from JuliaB:
A ring I had made with some old spess. I'm going to change the sides. I wasn't really thinking when I had it made, and it needs contrast.
So incredibly hard to take decent photos of these gems. Here are my other two. In person they're slightly oranger than the one set in my rose gold ring, which is a bit yellower. The oranger ones are each a little less than 2.5 ct, the ring one a bit more than 2.5 ct. They're all three from Loliondo, and like most spessartites from there, they're all pretty included. The smaller, oranger cushion is a little sleepy and has a peppering of dark inclusions in one corner, but I love the color; the emerald cut is clearer and really lovely. I got the small cushion and the emerald cut for great prices, I think because they're so hard to photograph--I took a chance based on unattractive brown-and-yellow photos and a description. They really are much, much nicer in person than in these photos, as I'm sure you know from trying to take pictures of your own spessartites. The highlights are orange in real life, not yellow, and the shadows are orange, not brown.
@Bluegemz , we might need to call you Orangegemz!
Are you going to do something with them? Has your ring satisfied a spess jewelry craving or do you envision more?