The cushion is 1.40ct (6.4x5.4mm) and is $400 and the oval is 1.66ct (7.3x6.2mm) is $500. These are unheated parti (blue/yellow) sapphires. Both are well cut with no windows and eye-clean (though it goes without saying that there is zoning, or else they would not be parti). The cushion is especially dynamic in the way the balance of blue and yellow changes from angle to angle. The blue is actually only located in one corner, but reflects off other facets as you move it around so can alternately look mostly yellow or very blue depending on orientation. The oval has a more even distribution of the blue and yellow. They are both pretty neat little stones, I just don't feel I need both. I am thinking of selling one to afford to set the other, but don't have a strong preference between the two so am listing them both.

This is stone was cut in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. I am not always a fan of the fantasy cuts because they can be a bit too much, but something about the unusual way it refracted the light combined with the smoky colour that gives it a very cool, mysterious air. It is cut so that all the facets radiate out from the centre. The tourmaline is a very neutral smoky gray, but I find myself seeing a lot of different colours pull out of it depending on what it is next too. It is a very unusual beauty. The stone is 2.53ct, 9 x 5.4mm.

These are lovely little labradorite cabs that have a beautiful schiller effect that glows a greenish blue. They were cut in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. The large is 16mm and is $80, the small are 13mm and are $45/pc or $80 for the pair.

This is a natural, untreated Burmese spinel with very little shift and no blacking out. In sunlight it has a slight purple modifier and looks like a very clean ruby. Indoors it is the most perfect red I have ever seen. My stupid camera phone has trouble capturing it, but it is really a superb red in all light sources. Dimensions are 5.6 x 4mm.