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Shiny_Rock
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- Jan 26, 2008
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I have been trying to decide what stone I should purchase next with the intention of setting, and stumbled across a little colour change garnet. I bought it, knowing it had a huge window. The stats were 1.06ct, 5.7 x 5.2 x 3.7mm. Small, but I thought it would do. The color change was from green to purplish red. The Vendor pic looks like this
When it arrived, the stone looked small the window was gaping, the color change was there, but it needed work. In honesty, I bought it with that in mind. After reading comments here, I sent the stone to Jerry of Gemart and asked him to recut it. I must state, he works quickly!
When it was finished, Jerry wrote me an email. The comments he wrote were unexpected - I admit, I felt a little emotional!
"It is one of the most unusual stones I have ever seen…I’ve never seen a garnet color changer, and was not prepared for this. Photos don’t come close to capturing the green outdoor color. ..fools the camera optics somehow.
Indoors it shows the purplish with many dispersion/diffraction color sparkles.
A few observations and points about it. I checked the refractive Index at 1.76, singley refractive. That’s right up there with sapphire. I can’t give you a quantitative number for dispersion, but it must be very good."
He commented that my little stone is now beautiful. I felt truly humbled. In addition, he provided me with a few facts.
"Note too that my measurements were quite different from yours…to your benefit.
As received: weight 1.16 ct, not 1.06 size 6.2 x 5.7 x 3.6mm not 5.2 x 5.7"
The final measurements were - 0.97 ct - 6.1 x 5.7 x 3.55mm - to my mind, my stone lost .09ct and is bigger face up, when the reality says something different.
Here are some pictures Jerry took.
My little CC Garnet was back in my possession, and it looks bigger. The closed window allows the color to bounce off the facets properly.
I was at a jeweler looking at their products and thought to ask about a setting for it, seeing as I had it on me and all. Their first instinct was that it was an alexandrite. I have some pics I took prior to the recut, which don't show the color at all accurately, and will try to take some after pics tonight or soonish.
Sorry for the large photos. And they are resized!
In real life, the stone is forest green in daylight, similar to the vendor pic, and purplish in incandescent. I have never managed a picture of the incandescent color - Jerry's pic may have to suffice.
Thank you all who add to the community - without you, I wouldn't have known about Jerry and his recutting service, which turned my duckling into a swan.
tSiS
When it arrived, the stone looked small the window was gaping, the color change was there, but it needed work. In honesty, I bought it with that in mind. After reading comments here, I sent the stone to Jerry of Gemart and asked him to recut it. I must state, he works quickly!
When it was finished, Jerry wrote me an email. The comments he wrote were unexpected - I admit, I felt a little emotional!
"It is one of the most unusual stones I have ever seen…I’ve never seen a garnet color changer, and was not prepared for this. Photos don’t come close to capturing the green outdoor color. ..fools the camera optics somehow.
Indoors it shows the purplish with many dispersion/diffraction color sparkles.
A few observations and points about it. I checked the refractive Index at 1.76, singley refractive. That’s right up there with sapphire. I can’t give you a quantitative number for dispersion, but it must be very good."
He commented that my little stone is now beautiful. I felt truly humbled. In addition, he provided me with a few facts.
"Note too that my measurements were quite different from yours…to your benefit.
As received: weight 1.16 ct, not 1.06 size 6.2 x 5.7 x 3.6mm not 5.2 x 5.7"
The final measurements were - 0.97 ct - 6.1 x 5.7 x 3.55mm - to my mind, my stone lost .09ct and is bigger face up, when the reality says something different.
Here are some pictures Jerry took.
My little CC Garnet was back in my possession, and it looks bigger. The closed window allows the color to bounce off the facets properly.
I was at a jeweler looking at their products and thought to ask about a setting for it, seeing as I had it on me and all. Their first instinct was that it was an alexandrite. I have some pics I took prior to the recut, which don't show the color at all accurately, and will try to take some after pics tonight or soonish.
Sorry for the large photos. And they are resized!
In real life, the stone is forest green in daylight, similar to the vendor pic, and purplish in incandescent. I have never managed a picture of the incandescent color - Jerry's pic may have to suffice.
Thank you all who add to the community - without you, I wouldn't have known about Jerry and his recutting service, which turned my duckling into a swan.
tSiS