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Sold, ty!!

Natural 5.8 mm, .91 cts round Vietnamese pink spinel sparkler, .91 cts, JCK find :)

Please contact me at:

katharath80@live.com

in lieu of using LT's messaging system (or try both! If you only try LT and don't get a reply from me, it's bc I didn't receive the message :)

Today I’m offering up this natural Vietnamese pink spinel, untreated. Never set, purchased by me from the JCK (Vegas) show in June 2017. It came from Dudley Blauwet’s booth (a really great vendor that is well known for his spinels and sapphires, I connected to him through Yvonne Raley a few years back and have owned many pieces from him). I thought this was a great price for an almost 1 ct round of this origin - especially bc it seems as though just having the Vietnamese origin increases the price on these.

It is .91 cts, 5.8 mm round in what looks like a Portuguese/step mixed cut to me (although I think it was sold to me as Portuguese if I recall). Nice clean gem, should fit easily into almost any 6 mm standard setting. The proportions are very nice, while the cut isn’t quite perfect I think (nothing I can really put my finger on, maybe the mix cut just throws me a bit?) - it has a ton of sparkle and life. It has great dispersion, which isn’t always visible, but often in diffused sunlight it’s quite noticeable. I can see blues, oranges, even yellow etc...I noticed it right away at the JCK show bc it was a sparkle bomb under the lights! It is a bit shifty, as so many spinels are -mainly it’s a nice medium pink, but can look like a more baby pink, ranging to a purplish pink, just depending on lighting. I need to double check what it looks like under indoor lighting, but as I recall it was pretty attractive there too (which can be when they really gray out).

I’ve tried to include the various looks it has, it really shifts even in varying degrees of diffused sunlight. A couple of the pics do show some of the dispersion, see pics 2 and 4 specifically, and the pic where it’s next to a cab shows how it can look more purplish (pic 5).

I also have a few videos that I can email or probably even send via text, if anyone is interested.

Asking $125 OBO shipped, via USPS first class insured mail. Open to reasonable offers!

I ship within the US only (due to insurance issues with int'l shipping). PayPal only please; personal/family/friends PayPal is always appreciated (but never required :) I'm katharath on PS, and although I haven’t been really active over there in a while, I've had many successful transactions here, selling from my personal collection.

Still have questions? Just ask!