Show your Star sapphires and rubies

[Odyssey44]

Ditto!

Profile is so important bc you want a nice dome and a moderate belly.

The star looks nice, but would want video in natural sun and also video in diffuse daylight to assess transparency. There are multiple stars bc there are multiple pot lights is all. Normal star behavior. For future reference. This stone and seller are OUT.

Ah, I did not realize lights could make multiple stars. Oh, do not worry--both were out as soon as I saw that muffin!

 

[Odyssey44]

My 1942 ebay star sapphire ring arrived today. The sapphire is lovely and ethereal, much more transparent than it looked in the photos. The color is a very pale silvery lavender blue. Through a loupe I can see several prominent internal features, mostly feathers (and silk, of course), but they aren't intrusive to the naked eye. The star is very sharp and well centered, with the 3D effect that transparent stones have, but a little weak--I guess that's also because of the transparency? The setting is delicate and very well made. E. must have been so pleased to get this ring from A. on that June day in 1942.



Here it is with my art nouveau stickpin conversion ring:




In indirect light with the converted stickpin and a pair of star sapphire cufflinks:




Close-ups showing the inclusions (and reflections of my phone:





It's so hard to convey what these stones look like with photos. These four sapphires look very similar to one another in photos, but in person they have distinct personalities.

I really like it! There is a big difference to me between silver and gray. I like silver very much. It is like a storm cloud. The setting is just perfect. Congratulations! My favorite picture is of it alone after the picture of you wearing it and the art nouveau (my favorite design period) stick pin ring. The star looks so bright! And wow, I can't believe how your star sapphires pretty much match!!

 

[glitterata]

I really like it! There is a big difference to me between silver and gray. I like silver very much. It is like a storm cloud. The setting is just perfect. Congratulations! My favorite picture is of it alone after the picture of you wearing it and the art nouveau (my favorite design period) stick pin ring. The star looks so bright! And wow, I can't believe how your star sapphires pretty much match!!

Thank you!

A lot of star sapphires in jewelry from the 1930s to 1950s seem to be this pale silvery blue. I wonder if they came from the same area. Does anyone know?

Mine don't match as perfectly in person as they do in photos. They're close, but it's more like a strong family resemblance than quadruplets. Even the cufflinks aren't a perfect match for each other. And as you can see, the colors shift a lot depending on the lighting and viewing angle. This new one is probably the shiftiest. It's icy.

I also had an opaque white star sapphire ring that REALLY looked like a storm cloud, but I gave it to my mom.

 

[Odyssey44]

Vendor sent me another star sapphire video. It is still a muffin, which I told him I would not consider. (There is someone out there cutting this way on purpose!) But for my education I am posting it here. I love the color. Star looks crisp too. Is there anything wrong with the face up side of this stone? I am missing it if there is and would like to learn.

https://imgur.com/stB1hI4

 

[glitterata]

Vendor sent me another star sapphire video. It is still a muffin, which I told him I would not consider. (There is someone out there cutting this way on purpose!) But for my education I am posting it here. I love the color. Star looks crisp too. Is there anything wrong with the face up side of this stone? I am missing it if there is and would like to learn.

https://imgur.com/stB1hI4

Pretty color, pretty star, not as horrifyingly tall as the previous one (though still a muffin). I wonder what flaws the seller has managed to hide, and how?

 

[Dreamer_D]

Vendor sent me another star sapphire video. It is still a muffin, which I told him I would not consider. (There is someone out there cutting this way on purpose!) But for my education I am posting it here. I love the color. Star looks crisp too. Is there anything wrong with the face up side of this stone? I am missing it if there is and would like to learn.

https://imgur.com/stB1hI4

This is a nice looking stone BUT you need video and pictures is diffuse daylight and indoor. No spot lights. You cannot assess the transparency otherwise and you cannot assess how it will look in 95% of lighting. The star is actually rarely present in daily wear so you need to like the appearance when it’s not present, too.

This is a common shape for stars. My first was like this. The higher dome ones are actually less common.

I don’t have a loose profile shot of my star anymore but here you can kind of see the dome is about 50% of the depth and the unpolished base the other 50%. That’s about as good as it gets.