Description

Bargain priced untreated 1.00 carat Red Mahenge Spinel. I've had it for a few years from the original deposit Mahenge mines. This stone is mostly a deep but nice vivid red red but it also can change to an orangey pinky red depending upon the lighting source and to a brownish deeper burgundy red more like a flame spinel about 15% to 20% of the time. I think that is fairly typical of some reds. I purchased two others, one for $1600 a similar size to this one years later (no that isn't a misprint) and another a little bigger for over $2000 (I collect spinels) and returned both because they were not as nice in colour as this one is. It is exceedingly difficult to buy well priced red spinels these days. Mostly, like 80% of the time in my lighting environment it's a nice decent red red. I'm an Aussie so we have strong natural sunshine/daylight my part of the world, but it's a nice red red indoors in poop lighting in the gem tray as well. It flashes sparkles of neon red in the right lighting.

I'm selling it for what I paid for it years ago and I'd guess it's probably worth retail 2 to 4 times or more what I'm asking for it now and I'm only selling it because it's one of the smaller ones that I have in my collection.

The cushion measures 5.60 x 5.12 x 4.37mms nice and deep for the size again giving it a nice depth of colour. It is a slightly wonky native cut but nothing too bad and it has inclusions but looks clean on the hand and in the tray.

Asking $300USD I know that similar reds (even flame spinels this one is what I'd call a rich vivid deep Mahenge red most of the time and a flame spinel red the rest of the time) sell for 3 to 5 times that price, I know because I've purchased them. The shipping is $25.00USD trackable registered signed for service to the US.

My direct email is arkieb1@yahoo.com