Date: 2/8/2007 1:38:41 PM
Author: colorchange
Date: 2/7/2007 2:36:43 PM
Author: FacetFire
I have to respectfully disagree. I have seen some amazing brown zircons! Even concave cut ones. My mom''s is sprakly and firey and stunning (it is not concave though). It really depends on the quality of the cut. Hers was cut by a truly wonderful gem cutter, whose name escapes me at the moment...but I''ll find out for you, Sophie...
I haven’t said brown zircon could not be nice, but those I have seen up to now, were not near to the quality of sapphires and diamonds.
About concave cut, I must say I’m not a fan of concave cutting, but think it’s extremely nice in some stones but not all.
To me it’s appropriate with stones having vivid color and light tone, brown is the exact opposite and the few concave cut brown garnets and zircon I have seen were not as nice as they would have been with a straight cut.
Garnets have to be seen in real, or at least you should request photos in normal light, not light box. Most garnets are very extinct.
About green, some green zircon from Ceylon are almost as nice as tsavorite, unfortunately, they are extremely rare (most are extinct or yellowish) and I have never found any very good one over 2.5 Ct up to now. But to me green should be set in yellow gold.
Still about green, I recently saw a 3 Ct emerald cut green sapphire from Ceylon… the quality of the best emeralds under natural light, but so disappointing under artificial light…