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Finally set my mint grossular

RSargent

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Hi everyone, I love my new ring so I wanted to share a picture. It's a 1.17 carat blue green mint garnet (sports lovely fluor), so because its not that big I picked a dainty Stuller setting that I hoped would make the stone the star. So glad to see it set and not sitting in a gem jar. :twirl:

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chrono

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Beautiful but we need MORE pictures. :appl:
 

elle_71125

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What a beautiful setting. More pics please. :love:
 

minousbijoux

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Very nice looking - what color is the metal?
 

RSargent

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I decided on white gold although I love rose too. Here is another photo. I have trouble taking photos with the ring on my hand. They never are very crisp!

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minousbijoux

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Such a beautiful stone. Just love it.
 

GLbluegreen

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Your setting is beautiful and the stone is just a lovely color. As you can see from my avatar blue/green's are my favorite colors. I recently obtained a nice greenish blue tourmaline that I want to have set. It is smaller than yours but I wonder if a setting similar to yours would help make it appear larger as well ? Did you purchase your stone and setting together from the same vendor ? I am new to having loose stones set and am a little lost at this point. I don't have a reputable jeweler that I work with in my area and the vendor I bought the stone from doesn't set them. He just cuts them. Not sure what I am going to do yet. Watching, listening, and learning from all my fellow price scope friends.
 

RSargent

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Thank you everyone! The setting came way after I bought the stone. Check out Prima gems. The color I wanted in a mint grossular garnet took me a long time to find. It's a similar color to cuprian blue green tourmaline but with much more sparkle. Most of the grossulars I had seen were more a yellow green. Plus the geek in me wanted strong fluorescence under black light. I love how this stone reacts to light sources and I find it stunning in all light. Someday I hope to afford a bigger version. My local bench jeweler helped me order the setting from Stuller and then he set it for me. I do think keeping the setting smaller helps make the stone look bigger. I like halos but I wanted to see the stone from the side though the prong setting. The stone has a deep belly and I didn't want to waste all that color and glow.
 

pregcurious

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Great color!
 

Lisa Loves Shiny

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I agree great color! Love the milgrain in the setting. Very nice!
 

Acinom

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What a gorgeous stone and setting. Your stone proves that you can create a lot of oomph with a relatively small stone. The color is amazing and it indeed seems to glow. You have made some great choices. Enjoy wearing your ring and please post more pics.
 

woofmama

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I love the color of your stone! I hope to get a mint garnet eventually, I just worked with Prima on a tsav, they have such a great selection & so nice to work with.

Your setting is very pretty! I agree that while halo's can be stunning with gemstones it's really nice to be able to see the belly of the stone.
 

Arcadian

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:love: :love: :love: :love: :love: Beautiful!!!!
 
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