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Hello all,
Today I am able to offer up a rare treat in coloured diamonds.
Usually when I have the chance to help a client start a new colored diamond collection, or add to an existing one, I have to be very discreet about the stones. Most of my clients don''t even like people to know their stones exist (until they are ready to sell them of course
). For myself, I want to show them to the world so that other people can enjoy and learn what wondrous things the earth gives us, and how sometimes we find gems that by all accounts should not even exist in nature, yet somehow they do. Well today is an exception. There is a new collection that has started, but as yet unnamed (probably will wait to give it a name until we add 1 or 2 more stones), and the owner has graciously allowed me to share some photos and "expose" them. The new collection has three super stones, all under a half carat, but very powerful even though they are small. Truth be told, if the smallest one was a little a little larger, it would be part of the Morningstar collection, and my client would not have known it was for sale, because I have fallen in love with it.
It was really fun to watch this client go from a strictly business approach when we started, to a very passionate mission now to create a magnificent collection. He told me that there was never a diamond or piece of jewelry that he ever thought "wow" about or got too excited, but he liked the investment idea of rare diamonds. But after spending a couple of hours with these three gems, he says he keeps looking at them and saying "wow." He now has a passion for them, and is already planning for the next addition to the collection. I have a feeling this one is the start of something incredible. It will take ten years or so, but it is always fun to watch these slowly grow. So enough talk, on to pictures. What you''re looking at has GIA grades of Fancy Vivid Green-Blue, Fancy Intense Green, and Fancy Deep Brownish-Purple. I have never seen a green-blue and/or purple as nice as these. The pictures are not very good, so they do not do these stones justice. These were taken by me with just office lighting and my digital camera, and the single stones I am holding the stone in tweezers and the camera in my other hand, so please excuse the photography, but I still think I have captured some of the beauty. I hope you enjoy.
Today I am able to offer up a rare treat in coloured diamonds.
Usually when I have the chance to help a client start a new colored diamond collection, or add to an existing one, I have to be very discreet about the stones. Most of my clients don''t even like people to know their stones exist (until they are ready to sell them of course
It was really fun to watch this client go from a strictly business approach when we started, to a very passionate mission now to create a magnificent collection. He told me that there was never a diamond or piece of jewelry that he ever thought "wow" about or got too excited, but he liked the investment idea of rare diamonds. But after spending a couple of hours with these three gems, he says he keeps looking at them and saying "wow." He now has a passion for them, and is already planning for the next addition to the collection. I have a feeling this one is the start of something incredible. It will take ten years or so, but it is always fun to watch these slowly grow. So enough talk, on to pictures. What you''re looking at has GIA grades of Fancy Vivid Green-Blue, Fancy Intense Green, and Fancy Deep Brownish-Purple. I have never seen a green-blue and/or purple as nice as these. The pictures are not very good, so they do not do these stones justice. These were taken by me with just office lighting and my digital camera, and the single stones I am holding the stone in tweezers and the camera in my other hand, so please excuse the photography, but I still think I have captured some of the beauty. I hope you enjoy.
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