So bored that I just had to post something for us to look at. Thought there may be others here in need of saving from the dismal, depressing throes of Fall. These are some of my moissanite collection.
Top row: My usual shabby nails, and a 7.5mm RB in 14k Stuller Solstice from the old Bella moissanite company, who hand-picked only the least tinted and best cut C&C stones for their rings. Tinted, I'd call it J color. Bella had some nice rings, including the lovely "Bella Halo," but went bankrupt after New Year's one year after a bunch of dishonest rent-a-ring buyers returned huge quantities of used rings that they'd only "borrowed" for the holiday season.
Middle row: New Starsgem 10k rose gold ring w/ 8.5mm OEC (transitional-ish) I/J but it always looks a very pale gray to me. I'll be replacing this stone with a better precision cut moissanite sometime in the future. It was a group buy ring on Reddit, the "Starsgem Tulip Solitaire" of September 2023. Several buyers had problems with their rings on that group buy. I think it cost me $258ish, and the setting is worth that to me so I have no real complaints. Ok for the price.
My wonky Gigajewe 8mm OEC from last summer in 14k Stuller Solstice.
My Moissanite Co. 6.5mm colorless OEC from last summer in Stuller illusion setting ring that I had made back in 2005.
Bottom row: Vintage 14k WG cocktail setting I bought a decade ago, with a $24 8mm Kalala (AliExpress store) I/J H&A RB sitting in it. This stone has since been mounted in a vintage YG low profile fishtail setting, which I don't have photos of but is gorgeous. And diamond-like. I have a 2ct J mined European Cut diamond or yet another 8mm old C&C RB moissanite (not shown) that I could put in the cocktail ring. Or maybe a colored gem. Kind of leaning toward the diamond, though.
8mm C&C ring that I overpaid paid $1800 + tax full retail for back in 2006 or so, because I just *had* to have it. Now. LOL. Tinted stone, definitely a J or K but no green. It's a 14K YG heavy mounting with a Euroshank bottom, and the stone is RB cut but has different faceting in the table and somehow throws some chunky fire and brilliance instead of the typical "splintery." That's why I had to have it, back in that day of far fewer choices in moissanite.
Top row: My usual shabby nails, and a 7.5mm RB in 14k Stuller Solstice from the old Bella moissanite company, who hand-picked only the least tinted and best cut C&C stones for their rings. Tinted, I'd call it J color. Bella had some nice rings, including the lovely "Bella Halo," but went bankrupt after New Year's one year after a bunch of dishonest rent-a-ring buyers returned huge quantities of used rings that they'd only "borrowed" for the holiday season.
Middle row: New Starsgem 10k rose gold ring w/ 8.5mm OEC (transitional-ish) I/J but it always looks a very pale gray to me. I'll be replacing this stone with a better precision cut moissanite sometime in the future. It was a group buy ring on Reddit, the "Starsgem Tulip Solitaire" of September 2023. Several buyers had problems with their rings on that group buy. I think it cost me $258ish, and the setting is worth that to me so I have no real complaints. Ok for the price.
My wonky Gigajewe 8mm OEC from last summer in 14k Stuller Solstice.
My Moissanite Co. 6.5mm colorless OEC from last summer in Stuller illusion setting ring that I had made back in 2005.
Bottom row: Vintage 14k WG cocktail setting I bought a decade ago, with a $24 8mm Kalala (AliExpress store) I/J H&A RB sitting in it. This stone has since been mounted in a vintage YG low profile fishtail setting, which I don't have photos of but is gorgeous. And diamond-like. I have a 2ct J mined European Cut diamond or yet another 8mm old C&C RB moissanite (not shown) that I could put in the cocktail ring. Or maybe a colored gem. Kind of leaning toward the diamond, though.
8mm C&C ring that I overpaid paid $1800 + tax full retail for back in 2006 or so, because I just *had* to have it. Now. LOL. Tinted stone, definitely a J or K but no green. It's a 14K YG heavy mounting with a Euroshank bottom, and the stone is RB cut but has different faceting in the table and somehow throws some chunky fire and brilliance instead of the typical "splintery." That's why I had to have it, back in that day of far fewer choices in moissanite.