The many colors of Tourmaline provide an alternative October birthstone.
Tourmaline is 7-7.5 on the Mohs Hardness scale making it more durable than it’s rival for October babies – Opal.
We have an extensive collection of loose tourmaline for collectors or custom design pieces. Many tourmaline jewelry pieces are on display in our gallery.
Colorful opal, appropriate for fall. The shifting play of kaleidoscopic colors is unlike any other gem.
Each opal is unique in pattern, shape, color, and type, making for one of a kind jewelry. Although it is only 5.5 – 6 on the Mohs Hardness scale, opal makes a beautiful jewelry gemstone.
Peridot is an attractive summer green color that goes with all colors. We have a nice selection of peridot earrings, rings, and necklaces in our gallery.
Peridot is 6.5 – 7 on the Mohs Hardness scale, making it a good jewelry gemstone.
Peridot, in shades of olive, is one of the few gemstones that forms in only one color. Beautifully faceted, it evokes the lateness of summer and the onset of fall, as leaves morph from green to gold and hang like jewels in the sunlight. It is a crystal of warmth and well-being, mentally stimulating and physically regenerating. It carries the gift of inner radiance, sharpening the mind and opening it to new levels of awareness and growth, helping one to recognize and realize one’s destiny and spiritual purpose.
We have an extensive collection of loose peridot available for purchase by collectors or for a
Peridot (pronounced pair-uh-doe) is the gem form of Olivine, a magnesium iron silicate mineral of the forsterite-fayalite family, with the amount of iron being responsible for the color. It occurs for the most part as an eye-clean gem with excellent transparency and is typically faceted. There is no known treatment to improve its color or clarity and therefore is not heat-treated or enhanced in any way.
Ruby, Emerald Cut, 5.66 x 4.57mm, 1.02ct. (H)
Diamonds, Trillion Cut, 4.0mm, .25ctw EF/VS matched pair.
Carved by hand and cast in platinum to perfectly accommodate the gems.
Engraving all around the gems makes them sing!
Trapezoidal-shape for an ergonomic fit and feel.
Satin finished platinum with highly polished beveled edges.
Exquisitely handcrafted.
Size 6.
Rubies are given as a symbol of success, devotion and integrity. According to ancient lore, a ruby is capable of reconciling lovers’ quarrels. Rubies were thought to ward off misfortune and ill-health.
Rubies can command the highest per-carat price of any colored stone. This makes ruby one of the most important gems in the colored stone market. In its purest form, the mineral corundum is colorless. Trace elements that become part of the mineral’s crystal structure cause variations in its color. Chromium is the trace element that causes ruby’s red color and hence its’ difference from sapphire.
Color – Color is the most significant factor affecting a ruby’s value: Fine gems are a pure, vibrant red to slightly purplish red.
Clarity – If a ruby’s inclusions affect its transparency or brilliance they reduce the gem’s value significantly.
Cut – Rubies are commonly fashioned as mixed cuts, which have brilliant-cut crowns and step-cut pavilions.
Carat weight – Fine-quality rubies over one carat are very rare and the price goes up significantly as size increases.