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Synthetic Diamond Names – A Negative Side of the Human Imagination  🧠 🍎 If it’s red, then it’s ruby! “Ruby” comes from the Latin “rubinus,” meaning red. Historically, red-cut gems like rubies, spinels and garnets were considered ''ruby'' or if they were cabochon-cut ''carbuncles''. 🔮 The reason for calling all red gems ruby was primarily due to a lack of knowledge to classify them and of course, the misuse of selling them for more money. Here are just a few of the terms or trade names for rubies: Alabandine ruby (almandine), American ruby (pyrope), Bohemian ruby (Czech pyrope), Balas ruby, Black Prince's ruby, Timur ruby and Oriental Ruby (all related to red spinel). 🔬 The Progress of Science and Technology helps in one word to classify the gems. Ruby was separated as a trading name, for pinkish to pigeon blood red variety of the mineral corundum (sapphire is also a variety of the same mineral corundum, but in all other colours, except the red one). 💎 The developed diamond grading scale or system, based on knowledge supported by advanced technology, was not enough to stop the old tradition in the trade market of misleading, scamming, frauding, fading, swindling, hoaxing, cunning, scheming and flimflamming... ❌ "Let's try to list all the trade names popular in the market for diamonds synthesized in a laboratory, which should be correctly called SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS: 🫢 Lab-grown diamonds, lab-created diamonds, man-made diamonds, cultured diamonds, cultivated diamonds, artificial diamonds, industrial diamonds, simulated diamonds, laboratory diamonds, engineered diamonds, manufactured diamonds, factory-made diamonds, eco-friendly diamonds, conflict-free diamonds, human-made diamonds, technologically produced diamonds, grown diamonds, LG, LGD, LGC, MGD, SCD, EGD, PLD, GFD, BCD, and ALD. ❌ We never even used lab-grown ruby before? It is synthetic ruby, so lab-grown diamonds go on the scam list too!  Enjoy! 📷 Synthetic CVD (Chemical Vapour Deposition) rough diamond (left), laboratory-grown HPHT (High-Pressure High Temperature) rough diamond (middle), and natural octahedral rough diamond (right) © Russell Shor, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) #diamonds #naturaldiamonds #syntheticdiamonds

Why David Webb is David Webb? 🦓 🖕 Well, who knows? We tried to purchase two identical bracelets, but it was impossible, each for around €70k. This means it’s not just wonderful as it is, but also a unique piece! Please enjoy! 🙌 David Webb is an iconic American jewelry brand established in 1948, celebrated for its bold designs, vibrant use of colors, and expert craftsmanship. Known for its unique motifs, including animal-inspired pieces, every item is meticulously handcrafted in their New York City workshop. The brand continues to embody the founder's creative vision, blending innovation with timeless artistry. 📷 Twin Frog Bracelet, cabochon sapphire and emeralds, brilliant-cut diamonds, white enamel, 18K gold and platinum © David Webb. #Jewellery #Jewels #Jewelry #FineJewelry #HighJewellery #ContemporaryJewelry

Kornerupine – To Rare, but To Diverse Gemstone! 🫒 🤲 Kornerupine, also known as Prismatine, is a rare and complex borosilicate mineral with the simplified formula (Mg,Fe²⁺)₄(Al,Fe³⁺)₆(SiO₄,BO₄)₅(O,OH)₂. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system (dipyramidal habitus), making it doubly refractive. Discovered in 1884, it was named after Danish geologist Andreas N. Kornerup (1857–1881). With a hardness of 6.5 to 7 on the Mohs scale it is suitable for jewellery. Remember, a vitreous luster can help in determination! 🙌 Kornerupine is an appealing gemstone, available as both transparent gems and cabochons with semi-transparent or opaque qualities. Its typical colours are brown, greenish-brown, brownish-green, or greyish-brown. Rarely can be colourless, light beige, vibrant green, emerald green, bluish-green, blue, pink, or violet. Kornerupine is especially valued as a gemstone when found in translucent green to yellow shades, with emerald green varieties being particularly sought after. With prismatine it forms a solid solution series and is strongly pleochroic, appearing green and reddish-brown. Some Kornerupine cabochons found in Sri Lanka and India display a striking cat’s eye effect. Do you agree, or you saw another hue?? 🤌 The finest deposits of Kornerupine are found in Sri Lanka (Matara, Embilipitiya, and Ratnapura), Burma (Mandalay), Madagascar (Ambovombe-Androy and Betroka), India (Orissa), and Kenya (Kwale), where an apple-green variety rich in vanadium occurs, and exceptionally attractive colours from Tanzania deposits. 📷 Green Oval 0.99 ct Kornerupine, at the time of posting, online available for sell for 180$, link in comments © Yavorskyy Co Ltd. #Gemstones #Gems #Gemmology #Minerals #Mineralogy #RareGems #ColourGems #Crystals 

Nice to see something survived in the jungle – the Cartier Giraffe Brooch 🦒🐆🐆 🙌 The Panthère motif after WWII brought a new dimension to Cartier’s Art Deco style and forever changed perceptions of the brand. Today, can you even imagine Cartier without the Panthère? ✊ A rare jewel, the Cartier Giraffe Brooch, recently sold at Christie's Joaillerie in Paris for almost €20k. Enjoy this rarity, and take a moment to consider, what would Cartier be like without the Panthère? 👉 Round emeralds, bronze glitter, and black enamel, set in 18k yellow gold (French hallmark), signed Cartier, with maker’s marks (Hamard Vitau (Abysse)). 📷 Cartier Giraffe Brooch, 7.3 x 3.4 cm, 36.9 g © Christie's, Christie's Education. #Cartier #Jewelry #Jewels #Luxury

Gone with Time, forever or maybe not!? 📜 🤏 One of thousands, or perhaps one of hundreds of thousands preserved magnificent jewels: evidence of the past, with almost no story behind. A European onyx cameo featuring a bearded man holding a scroll, dated to circa the 15th–16th century or possibly later. Cut in relief, the cameo depicts the bust of a bearded man with a balding pate, holding a scroll. 🙌 Giorgio Sangiorgi (1887–1965) was a prominent collector, antiquities dealer, and scholar specializing in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art. Based in Rome, he operated a gallery at Palazzo Borghese on Via Ripetta and began assembling his collection in the late 19th century, continuing through the mid-20th century. Sangiorgi’s work gained recognition through exhibitions, such as one featuring his ancient textiles at Castel Sant’Angelo in 1911, and publications, including his ancient glass collection in 1914. Over time, many of his pieces were acquired by museums and private collectors. His collection was among the last catalogued and published by renowned gem scholar Sir John Boardman (20 August 1927 - 23 May 2024) and Claudia Wagner, solidifying his legacy in the art world in Boardman and C. Wagner, Masterpieces in Miniature: Engraved Gems from Prehistory to the Present, London, 2018, p. 247, no. 231. 📷 Lot 89: A European onyx cameo featuring a bearded man holding a scroll, circa 15th–16th century or later, 2.3 cm long, sold for GBP 12,600 (Estimate: GBP 6,000–GBP 8,000) © Christie's, 7 December 2022, live auction 21015, Antiquities: Including Ancient Engraved Gems Formerly in the G. Sangiorgi Collection Part IV Christie's Education. #Gems #Gemstones #Jewellery #MedievalJewellery

Three Hues of Benitoite - Butterfly Brooch 🦋 🦋 Benitoite was discovered in 1907 by prospector James M. Couch in the San Benito Mountains, situated roughly halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It soon became California's official state gemstone. While it has also been found in Arkansas and Japan, gem-quality Benitoite remains one of the rarest gems in the world. The largest known specimen, a medium violet-blue cushion cut weighing 7.83 carats, was sourced from San Benito County, California, and is now part of the Smithsonian Institution's collection in Washington, D.C. 🦋 San Diego, a city known for its beautiful beaches, parks, and temperate climate, is where, in 2012, the All That Glitters: The Splendour and Science of Gems and Minerals exhibition was held at the San Diego Natural History Museum. There, Buzz Gray and Bernardine Johnston showcased a remarkable collection of 13 butterfly brooches, each crafted from exceptionally rare gems and minerals, including alexandrite, Mexican fire opal, Baja California pearls, topaz, rainbow moonstone, and various gems from California, including benitoites, set in butterfly brooch. 🦋 Mind-blowing, the brooch features diamonds and blue benitoite 🔷, with the eyes made from orange benitoite 🔶 and the antennae fashioned from colourless benitoite◽️. 🦋 Benitoite (simplified BaTiSi₃O₉) is a rare blue barium titanium cyclosilicate mineral, typically found in hydrothermally altered serpentinite. It is often associated with natrolite, neptunite, joaquinite, serpentine and albite. Formed under conditions of low temperature and high pressure, benitoite has a hardness of approximately 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale. It crystallises in the hexagonal system, meaning it exhibits double refraction. When exposed to short-wave ultraviolet light, fluoresces in bright blue to bluish-white hues, and appears red if it is near colourless. However, due to its rarity, hard to conclude and variations in its appearance are possible. 📷 Buzz Gray and Bernadine Johnston Benitoite - Butterfly brooch © Robert Weldon, GIA (Gemological Institute of America). #Gemmology #Gemstones #Gems #RareGems #Benitoite #Minerals #Crystals #Jewelry #Jewels #Brooches #Luxury #Diamonds

Aquadité in the Wonderland of Le Vian 🍫🪼🍯 🙌 Have we entered a new era where gemstone varieties can achieve fame through social media? The story unfolds as follows: in April 2022, local miners on Indonesia's Maluku Islands discovered a new variety of chalcedony rich in copper minerals. Shortly after its discovery, Greek gemologist and adventurer Yianni Melas spotted an image of the striking gem on a dealer’s Instagram account. Yianni Melas named the stone Aquadité, a registered trademark blending “aqua” to evoke the blue sea and “dité” for the goddess Aphrodite, associated with love and the sea, but also goddess of copper. 👉 The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) later confirmed Aquadité as a new variety of chalcedony. It contains well-formed crystals of native copper, red cuprite, blue chrysocolla, and green malachite. One of its most distinctive features is the shimmering copper flecks that float throughout the chalcedony matrix, creating a mesmerising, otherworldly beauty. 👌 According to Yianni Melas, three deposits of Aquadité have been identified on the same remote island, each producing gemstones with distinct colouration, patterns, and textures. Some feature chrysocolla specks, while others display copper veins and glimmering copper flakes. 🫱 Chalcedony is a semi-transparent mineral and a microcrystalline fibrous variety of quartz, encompassing well-known types such as agate, bloodstone (heliotrope), onyx, sapphire quartz (sapphirine), sard, sardonyx, carnelian, chrysoprase, jasper, etc… Celebrated throughout history, it has been prized for its use in ancient cameo and intaglio carvings but also mentioned in the Bible. In The Book of Revelation (21:19), chalcedony is described as the gemstone adorning the third of the twelve foundations of the heavenly New Jerusalem. It was also highly popular in Roman civilization. 🤌 Where gold is honey and only some of the brown diamonds are chocolate, Aquadité has taken centre stage. This new variety of the oldest chalcedony has quickly become a recognisable gem in Le Vian's chocolate palette. More about the fascinating story of Le Vian, in comments below. 📷 Le Vian Aquadité Collection © Le Vian. #Jewelry #Jewels #Aquadité #RareGems #Gemstones #Chalcedony #Gems #LeVian #Luxury #ChocolateDiamonds #Diamonds

The South Taste of Northern Lights – Aurora Green Diamond ⚡️ 🤜 Green diamonds are among the most complex when it comes to determining the origin of their colour, but it is certain that their colour is related to natural (or lab-controlled) irradiation. This means they can belong to any diamond type (Ia, Ib, IIa, or IIb), as the colour is not influenced by nitrogen (N), boron (B), or plastic deformations, but by irradiation. 🙌 A pure green colour is the most desirable, and additional hues usually decrease the value. There is a significant difference in value between Fancy Vivid and Fancy Intense. The spectrum of hues includes Fancy Vivid Green, Fancy Vivid Bluish Green, Fancy Intense Yellow-Green, Fancy Grey Green, Faint Green, Fancy Light Greyish Yellow-Green, and Grayish Green Chameleon, among others. 🤝 Probably the first association with green diamonds is the remarkable Dresden Green Diamond, and rightly so... It dates back to 1722, when a London news-sheet mentioned a large green diamond, later acquired by Augustus III of Poland in 1742 at the Leipzig Fair. In 1768, it was set into a lavish hat ornament adorned with 411 diamonds. This is the famous Dresden Green Diamond setting that remains to this day. At 41 carats, the Dresden Green is the largest known green diamond with a colour of natural origin, or maybe not? 👌 Returning to the present, it is unimaginable not to mention one of the most fascinating creations, not just a green diamond but also a masterpiece of jewellery, the 5.03-carat "Aurora Green." A cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant cut diamond, VS2 clarity, surrounded by circular-cut pink diamonds. The "Aurora Green" remains the largest and finest Fancy Vivid Green diamond ever offered at auction and is the largest Fancy Vivid Green diamond of natural colour graded by the GIA (Gemological Institute of America) as of 20 January 2016. On 31 May 2016, the diamond, originally owned by Scarselli Diamonds, Inc., was sold at Christie's Hong Kong Magnificent Jewels, for a record price of $3.3M per carat, or $16.8M totalling. 👏 A multi-generational endeavour, Scarselli Diamonds, Inc. has dedicated itself to presenting exceptional, natural fancy-coloured diamonds, rooted in the family’s origins in Naples. Today, Scarselli Diamonds, Inc. is managed by the third generation of diamantaires and is a leading manufacturer of natural fancy-coloured diamonds. Headquartered in New York, with locations across Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Scarselli Diamonds, Inc. is the first diamond companies to have its collection admitted to a museum. 📷 The “Aurora Green” © Scarselli Diamonds, Inc., Bruno Scarselli, Christie's. #Diamonds #FancyDiamonds #FancyColorDiamonds #Jewellery #JewelleryHistory #FamousDiamonds #Luxury #ScarselliDiamonds

Photo speaks a thousand words ✨ 📸 Model Pat Burrage, that probably somewhere you have seen, but she stayed quite publicly unknown, with collection of rose design engagement rings at the American National Retail Jewelers annual convention, New York, New York, August 11, 1952. They're worth around $50.000 in 50s or today equivalent of around $655.000. Jewelers of America Getty Images ⭐️Enjoy and never forget, that jewelry is about joy! #Jewelry #Jewels #Luxury 

The Secrets of Colour Impressionism - “Garden of the Nile” Ring by Antonio Seijo 🍃🌊 🤲Introducing the “Garden of the Nile” ring by Antonio Seijo Fine Jewellery, a stunning tribute to colour, form, and natural beauty that merges art with the earth’s rarest gems. This piece centres around a breathtaking 8.35ct rectangular shaped opal, evoking Monet’s Water Lilies with its serene, pond-like shimmer. The opal is framed by 24 emeralds (5.36 ctw), 45 diamonds (0.30 ctw), and a verdant palette of 268 paraíba tourmalines and tsavorites (5.08 ctw). 🙌 What is the secret of creation? Maybe... An uncommon opal cut, a mixture of round and rectangular shapes, and an imaginative design, with elements intersecting like trees in a circular projection of coloured gemstones, enhanced by a gradient that changes in size and colour distribution. In the final creation, real colours associated with the “Garden of the Nile” and the imagined impressionist colours of Monet’s Water Lilies are expressed through a selection of gemstone cuts, shapes, and orientations, capturing both the reality and imagination of grandeur in the form of decorative art - a ring. 👏Antonio Seijo, a fourth-generation jeweller with roots in Andalusia, crafts more than jewellery, each piece tells a story inspired by myths, geology, and the natural world. Asymmetrical abstract shapes in bright colours are characteristic features of Seijo’s creations. Working between Geneva, Paris, London, and Marbella, Seijo considers colour his “key to creation”. 📷“Garden of the Nile” © Seijo Fine Jewelry. #Jewellery #Jewels #FineJewellery #Inspiration #Luxury