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Tag Archives: sapphire
Dark blue with limited flash blue dot of color.#1132
This dot of color is as small as I have cut them. It has a rich blue color, but seems to suffer from a lack of transparency that I have seen in other blues. Still with its small size of … Continue reading
Smallest round I ever made, blue color dot.#779
It looks like a little sapphire and deserves a note as the smallest stand round brilliant I ever cut. (and any other style of cut). It has a nice medium toned blue and weighs a spectacular .11 carats. (That is … Continue reading
A medium pastel blue with a touch of gray oval cuprian#539
I did not buy the rough for this oval as cuprian. It was too early in the game. Later, I did not expect this somewhat different blue, with a touch of gray, to be cuprian because it does not have … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, cuprian, Mozambique, oval, pastel, sapphire
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Midnight/sapphire blue flash, trilliant cut.#515
It would be nice if I never purchased a “problem” piece of rough. But then I guess I would never get to show off, to myself, what I can stretch to do. (I have almost never discussed cutting a stone … Continue reading
Dark flash driven sapphire blue round
This standard round brilliant is cut with a shallow crown because the gemstone is dark. Most of the flash driven deep blue color is around the sides of the table. The lack of transparency of the stone can be linked … Continue reading
Posted in Droplets of Color, Indicolite
Tagged blue, dark blue, droplet-of-color, indicolite, sapphire
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