November Blog

My lapidary Doug Menadue says on his website:

“Here is a lovely parcel of tourmalines, garnets and an incredible royal blue sapphire that I recently cut for a client. There were a couple of stunning merelani mint green garnets (geez I love those mints!!!) which were simply dazzling, and the tourmalines are all wonderful. The sapphire was one of the finest little blues I’ve cut… it was a stunning royal blue, perfect saturation, nice and rich. Overall a superb parcel of gems cut from rough supplied by the client”.

The gems are all for sale and be quick before my better half bags the sapphire and the garnets. Prices, weight and gems size are listed below.

(Front center) Two Imperial Garnets (fiery orange), 0.70ct ea, @ $155 each. Center piece; Natural blue sapphire 1.30ct @ $420. (LHS front) two Garnets grossular 0.6 &1.1cts @$125 and $225 respectively. (RHS front) two green tourmalines 0.8 & 0.9ct @ $150 and $175 respectively. Lastly at the rear are two identical tourmaline cisar cut gems at 3.75cts each, 15x6x5mm and @ $600 each.