Let's play a game... rainbow gems.

[rattatooE]

What a sweet thing to say.

At heart, my first love was opaque gems/cabs and Native American pieces, and I didn't really fancy transparent/faceted stones. Wish it could've stayed that way... I might've had retirement funds. lol

You could probably sell your pieces to a museum or something in the future for a retirement fund haha. Speaking of orange/pink, your padparadscha ring you once posted is UNREAL. Like that has got to belong in a museum lol, which is why the part about opaque gems surprised me. Maybe I could dig around this thread later for opaque gems/cabs.
As for the yellow marquise I bought, I won’t get it certified any time soon. I don’t know much about the process at all, and I hear people losing things in the mail all the time.

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

green is next

 

[mellowyellowgirl]

Minding my sister’s emerald while she’s in the bathroom so here’s your green! It was a big milestone present from me.

 

[Autumn in New England]

I’ll take Orange and Yellow!! Hopefully it’s okay I take both at once.
The black box has three sapphire pieces in there. The tiny oval piece looks more orange in real life, but comes out pinkish on my phone.
As for the yellow stone, I have no idea what it is actually haha. It came from a river in Sri Lanka. It’s transparent inside and about sixty carats. They said it doesn’t look like sapphire rough in shape or color, so I asked to just buy it as a specimen. Maybe topaz or citrine? I hope it’s topaz.

You can post as many as you like, however often as you like! In fact, maybe we should have folks post their entire rainbow collections in one photo/post.

Do you have any desire to get the yellow rough tested, even just by a local G.G.? The fee would probably be nominal. Then depending on what they think it is, you can decide whether to have it properly certified. The suspense would kill me!

 

[Autumn in New England]

You could probably sell your pieces to a museum or something in the future for a retirement fund haha. Speaking of orange/pink, your padparadscha ring you once posted is UNREAL. Like that has got to belong in a museum lol, which is why the part about opaque gems surprised me. Maybe I could dig around this thread later for opaque gems/cabs.
As for the yellow marquise I bought, I won’t get it certified any time soon. I don’t know much about the process at all, and I hear people losing things in the mail all the time.

I am probably not going to have children at this point, so I always think about who will inherit my jewels. I'd hate to have them sold off piecemeal, mistreated, and lost or destroyed. I'd rather them stay as a unit, because that's how I "curated" them. I mean, they're not the crown jewels, but I was thinking maybe I could "donate" them to a local museum for display as a private collection. But they'd have to promise (in writing to my estate) to keep them together! I would already be leaving $ to charity (unless I go broke before then lol), so that will be covered.

 

[Autumn in New England]

Minding my sister’s emerald while she’s in the bathroom so here’s your green! It was a big milestone present from me.

I just cannot deal with you... I'll say it again... BEST SISTER EVER!!!!!!!!! If she doesn't appreciate you, I'm available for the job. Stunning, my friend.

 

[Autumn in New England]

I'll take blue and post another of my opaque/cab pieces. The pendant contains Ithaca Peak turquoise that I cut from the rough, and then commissioned Navajo artist and friend Kee Yazzie to create. It's around 3" long. The color is a deep, electric blue, and the matrix is all sparking pyrite. It's really a very unique piece.

 

[Autumn in New England]

PURPLE is next!

 

[toomuchB]

I am probably not going to have children at this point, so I always think about who will inherit my jewels. I'd hate to have them sold off piecemeal, mistreated, and lost or destroyed. I'd rather them stay as a unit, because that's how I "curated" them. I mean, they're not the crown jewels, but I was thinking maybe I could "donate" them to a local museum for display as a private collection. But they'd have to promise (in writing to my estate) to keep them together! I would already be leaving $ to charity (unless I go broke before then lol), so that will be covered.

I really struggle with this myself.

I could inherent to my nieces but I'm not sure they'd have appreciation. But they are girly girls, so maybe if everything is set in cute settings - as long as I give them extensive documentation about what each stone is, was bought for, current value etc. I'll certainly give them some pieces, but all, including the obscure ones they probably don't care about?

I wouldn't want to force them to keep what they don't want but it hurts to imagine some of my pieces going at a crappy auction after I worked so hard to put them together.

My collection is unlikely to reach museum level.
There is a tiny local public museum nearby, and not everything there is crazy big or expensive. Maybe they or a similar one will take a donation with the promise of keeping them together.

Still young so we shall see. Maybe my biological clock will kick in...