Facetted Smoky Quartz

This is quite a special facetted smoky quartz that was given to me by Barbara Smigel, ex owner of ACStones.com.

She gave it to me years back during an anniversary sale, because it has just a little chip at one of the corners.. but this could be easily concealed using a prong when setting...

The special facetted trapezoid cut gives the otherwise common stone a beautiful make over!

A seldom worn ring basks in the limelight..

This is one of the diamond rings that I seldom wear.. it has been sitting in my box for quite some time necause I felt that there was too much bling in the form of diamonds around it..

Just recently I decided to wear it recently:

and was quite surprised to get comments that it was a nice ring...

What do you think?

Huge facetted smoky quartz

Another large facetted smoky quartz on display!



Compared with a Singapore 10 cent coin, this gem is nearly twice the size. If you look carefully, you can see some striations on the gem table!

Big facetted citrine

Big is bold and beautiful??

Perhaps so... Was rumaging my collection when I came across this!!!

A huge... even humangous facetted citrine!!

Took some pics with comparison to a 10cent Singapore coin for better visualization purposes!

Overall, I think the stone is quite well cut and has a nice colour.. however, it is certainly too huge to be set into jewellery and best remains a collector's item!

White Sapphire

I managed to get this white sapphire recently:

White sapphire is an excellent diamond substitute as it is brilliant and second only to diamond itself in hardness.

White or "Colorless" Sapphires have a great deal of brilliance, are attractive, durable and well priced. Gem quality Colorless Sapphires are not common.

This particular piece of mine has quite a good cut and is relatively eye clean.

Spinel

Bought this facetted spinel at a very attractive price at Kinokuniya recently..

It has a nice purplish red colour!

Blue Topaz

Blue Topaz Gem facetted!

These stones were bought at Yahoo auctions for a very good deal!

Facetted Red Garnet

Some facetted red garnets!

Red red wine!

Facetted Tourmaline

These stones shown here are all facetted tourmaline...

Look at how many colours this mineral can come in.. from pink to red, green to dark green! It covers nearly every colour in the spectrum!


The word tourmaline has two etymologies, both from the Sinhalese word turamali, meaning "stone attracting ash" (a reference to its pyroelectric properties) or according to other sources "mixed gemstones".

Star Blue Topaz

i don't really fancy blue topaz...



But this facetted blue topaz really interested me when I saw it because of its very unique cut : a star!

Heart shaped amethyst

Another heart shaped gem... this time.. the common amethyst gets a unique heart shaped make over!

I 'heartz' Andulasite

This Andulasite here has a very special facetted heart shape!

I ordered it online from ACStones.com



It exhibits strong plechroism... showing 2 different colours from different angles!

Fancy Diamond Tie Clip

White gold tie clip set with 4 fancy diamonds in 4 fancy shapes and many small round brillants...

Who said Diamonds are only a girl's best friend?

Kunzite and carved amethyst

Got this recently!

carved amethyst cabochon

Notice the intensity of the amethyst that it appears so dark!

facetted kunzite

I really like the kunzite a lot cos its delicate pink colour!

Facetted Green Tsavorite

Facetted green tsavorite of 0.91 cts

It is a variety of the garnet group species grossular, a calcium-aluminium garnet with the formula Ca3Al2Si3O12

Green grossular had been rare until 1967, when British gem prospector and geologist Campbell R. Bridges came across a deposit of the mineral in the mountains of north-east Tanzania.