Emerald

Excellent clarity, and strong color for a smaller Tanzanite. This is also a nicely brilliant stone for an emerald cut.

This is one of the prettiest colored, brightest Tanga garnets I’ve cut, but it had a little surprise in one end so it’s really only going…

A deeper blue colored spinel that is a bit darker than the photo.

This is a darker red spinel that can look blackish in low light conditions but shows good red flashes in direct lighting. In person, it looks a lot…

A deeper, slightly orangy red spessatite garnet with good flashy brilliance.

This sapphire is mainly a greenish yellow color with a zone of stronger yellow that is not as noticeable in person as in the picture.

This sapphire is slightly more greenish in person than in the photo, has great sparkle and good clarity.

This is an untreated sapphire from Songea, Tanzania that has a pleasing greenish blue color and great brilliance for an emerald cut stone. It shows…

This is a nice precious topaz with good color that a lot of people would consider “imperial”. It has one very tiny twinkle in the bottom…