GRADING REPORT CYS235
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Sapphire
- Carat: 2.35
- Shape: Square-ish Cushion
- Measures: 7.25x6.90x5.51 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Excellent
- Tone: Medium Dark 60
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Lightly Included (see comment)
- Cutting Grade: Excellent (precision cut)
> Brilliancy: 95+%
> Depth: 76%
- Origin: Sri Lanka
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: GGTL Geneva 14G7102 (see 'more images')
Overall Grade: Very Good+
Comment: Full sized yellow sapphires were NOT on our shopping list (aka inventory-management) but sometimes you can't let a gem get away. This golden yellow sapphire caught my eye for its rare MD60, an almost-no-green and its almost-100%-brilliancy. Lack of green in yellow sapphire is a natural rarity while fine cutting is no accident but equally rare. If you see green in the images, write it off to the sunny day or your monitor and look at the side-image, which as so often gives a better color representation than the front images which are distorted by a gem's luster. Under the lens, from the front, a classic aquarium fish, the one from "Finding Nemo", noses against the surface. Not visible without lens, mind you. The dignified laboratory report from Geneva delivers the suitable noblesse for a classic Ceylon sapphire. The same direction comes to mind for a setting: very classic, prongs, a halo, or two, and split shanks with channel-set white glitters. Let us make you a package-deal for a special occasion ring, the one that turns heads even in the best restaurants. WLT and NhRP thank you for the contribution; and yes you could do more by donating the full amount, go for dinner without glitter, or skip dinner completely to donate the savings but we're only humans and 5% is not a bad number, considering that a decade ago nobody except us gave anything at all. Today, there is no website that does not support the somewhere-fund; and if only half of those give half of what they promise, we're proud to have started the idea that gem-mining, next to teakwood and platinum, are not utterly indispensable to human life and should pay their voluntary share.
P.S. In the handshot below the gem is slightly inclined, opening a first tilt window, but also showing the harmonious flow of light and luster. We added two more close-up handshots under 'more images', one straight from the front and one midway between to show you the opening of a tilt-window and its light-flow. Is that weirdly detailed?
