GRADING REPORT CCGA134
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Color-Change Garnet
- Carat: 1.34
- Shape: Oval
- Measures: 6.36x5.03x4.59 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Very Good
- Color Change: Excellent
- Tone: Medium Dark 75
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Very Lightly Included
- Cutting Grade: Very Good
> Brilliancy: 50%
> Depth: 72%
- Origin: Tanzania
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: IGI 361902752
Overall Grade: Excellent
Comment: This is a perfect example for the radical color-change which most, not to say 'all', alexandrites are hoping for: from blue-green to pink-purple, a full jump across the color-wheel. The images (without photo-shopping at least) cannot, almost never, catch the full extent of the magic but the eye comprehends right away, a deep mint green with a blue tint at day, always interlaced with a few sparks of red and purple, turning to a full red-purple in tungsten light, now with sparks of green which totally disappear in pure warm yellow light of a candle. Study the additional images, each showing aspects of the hues mixed into these optical miracles. Spotting your first ray of red in a green gem is like seeing your first shooting-star. A breath-stopper (only temporarily, it is hoped) and nothing you ever get bored of. Even old fishermen, used to shooting-stars every night, do raise their eyes and even after decades find novelties, stars splintering as they fall, or blinking rhythmically before they vanish in the ocean. Back to business: No windows, no inclusions, no treatments in this 1.34. Note that though the handshot shows the red-purple side on the camera, it was in fact shot in natural daylight and there appeared deep green to the eye, not red-purple. A gem like this will provide you with new color impressions for years to come, no exaggeration, the possible combinations of green, blue, red and purple are, like nature itself, endless.
P.S. The plain color-wheel added below is not meant to insult your basic schooling but to make a quick visual check easier.
