deorwine
Shiny_Rock
- Joined
- May 5, 2005
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I can never get any gems set because I keep buying more! I bought the Montana sapphire from Finewatergems before Christmas, the tsavorite at Dana's sale in January, and the grey-blue spinel when it popped up on his site about a month ago. (Freke, I blame you for that one. I've been ogling your lovely grey spinels for much too long.) It took me that whole time to get pictures, yes. I took pics (FINALLY) last weekend and it's taken me since then to get this post up.
Here is the tsavorite (others to follow). 1.38 carat, native cut. (Poor Dana was kind of sad that I didn't order his own cutting, I think! But that was remedied later... see next posts
) It has to my eye maybe just barely the slightest bit of yellow in direct sunlight, but in all other lighting is pure lovely intense green, though I don't know that the pics reflect that (I see a bit more yellow in the pics than is really there in real life)... it really is hard to photograph green.
Yeah, it has a window. But man, I just love tsavorites... it is so sparkly!
Showing the green sparkle!
With aluminum foil in back to simulate closing the window.
More to come...



Here is the tsavorite (others to follow). 1.38 carat, native cut. (Poor Dana was kind of sad that I didn't order his own cutting, I think! But that was remedied later... see next posts
Yeah, it has a window. But man, I just love tsavorites... it is so sparkly!
Showing the green sparkle!
With aluminum foil in back to simulate closing the window.
More to come...


