sanfranciscoellen
Brilliant_Rock
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I must start off by saying that I know virtually nothing about colored gemstones, except what I have picked up hunting around for the spinel. So I''ve read the spinel threads here, and poked around various recommended websites. But you can work with the assumption that I am innocent as a baby, here.
So my 3.87ct Silver Blue Spinel cushion arrived from Bangkok today from Gemcal.com, and I don''t know what to make of it! It''s not an "I don''t like it" feeling...it is a "I don''t get you" kind of feeling. If that makes sense.
It is like a slippery silvery chameleon, going from dark pewter to sky blue to everything in between depending on the lighting of the room, the angle, etc. At one minute it is a ball of flashes, and the next it seems to be a clear windowpane that shows whatever surface is underneath it as clear as a bell.
I am really on the fence, so help me out. I want to know your thoughts, positive or negative, on what you can see in cut, color, etc. For eval purposes, I paid $252. I also want to know if that was in the correct ballpark. They had spinels all over the place pricewise, and this was the most expensive of the ones I was looking at, due it having the "best silver color" of the silver blue spinels I was considering, they said.
I''ve got lots of photos, so I''ll try to weed through them. It''s darn hard to photograph these puppies loose!
So my 3.87ct Silver Blue Spinel cushion arrived from Bangkok today from Gemcal.com, and I don''t know what to make of it! It''s not an "I don''t like it" feeling...it is a "I don''t get you" kind of feeling. If that makes sense.
It is like a slippery silvery chameleon, going from dark pewter to sky blue to everything in between depending on the lighting of the room, the angle, etc. At one minute it is a ball of flashes, and the next it seems to be a clear windowpane that shows whatever surface is underneath it as clear as a bell.
I am really on the fence, so help me out. I want to know your thoughts, positive or negative, on what you can see in cut, color, etc. For eval purposes, I paid $252. I also want to know if that was in the correct ballpark. They had spinels all over the place pricewise, and this was the most expensive of the ones I was looking at, due it having the "best silver color" of the silver blue spinels I was considering, they said.
I''ve got lots of photos, so I''ll try to weed through them. It''s darn hard to photograph these puppies loose!
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