Description

VIDEOS HERE: https://imgur.com/a/3BUd5z0

AND HERE: https://imgur.com/a/bASVjiJ

2.47ct "stoplight" Red spinel with no/minimal secondary hues. This is as red as it gets!

It boasts a gorgeous, glassy body, open tone, a super pure red hue and it faces up totally eye-clean - save one tiny, surface-reaching inclusion all the way at one corner (it looks like a tiny abrasion). You really have to search to find it, probably wont notice it without a loupe and it is positioned perfectly to be covered by a prong.

Under a loupe, you'll find a few colorless, bubble-like inclusions that are mostly visible on the pavilion side.

It has moderate fluorescence (not super strong like the pink stones and not fully quenched like the dark ones from Mokok)

Certified natural and untreated by GIT.

*I just added a photo & 2 videos of the red spinel in a box with other color gems (cool morning light from a north-facing window). The wonky oval two rows beneath the spinel is a “reference color” pigeon-blood Burmese Ruby.

***NOTE: Spinel tends to be brighter than ruby but ruby can attain a higher saturation than spinel. That is, the color concentration per cubic millimeter of material is higher in this Ruby than it is in this Spinel.

HOWEVER, since visual color saturation in gems is a function of BOTH concentration of color per cubic millimeter AND the length of the path of light through that material however, the size and depth of this spinel allows it to face up with very saturated color.

I hope that makes sense!