GRADING REPORT RDE122
- Identification: Natural Unheated & Untreated Demantoid
- Carat: 1.22
- Shape: Pear
- Measures: 5.58x6.65x4.21 (millimeter)
- Color Grade: Very Good
- Tone: MD65
- Color Zoning: None
- Clarity: Free of Inclusions
- Cutting Grade: Excellent
o Brilliancy: 80%
o Depth: 75%
- Origin: Madagascar
- Treatment: None
Certificate No: GIT 2040058 (see more images)
Overall Grade: Very Good+
Comment: Perfectly shaped pear demantoid in fresh green with little yellow, no grey, never pale, never dark. Free of inclusions, no window, no treatments or enhancements. One extra image on wood shows (secondary sun-) light breaking in over the tip before the camera starts showing only a gleaming light reflection in drop shape. The other images had to be kept in shadow to display color and clarity, and the symmetric even cut. Well over the median three-quarter carats in which demantoids are commonly found. Full luster especially for a drop shape thanks to precise (hand-)cut. Best used as a glitter gem for a simple pendant with four prongs, or more elegant IMO, with two prongs below and a V-shaped claw fitted on the tip. In a pendant you will not need to worry about scratching or chipping, in a ring more protection is advisable. This not because demantoid, or garnets, are sensible, but because every gem, including diamond, will suffer abrasions over years of daily wear. For dinner occasions, on the other side, even softer gems will stand normal use. As good as it gets before premium charges for Russian demantoid with more aggressive greens (same luster though). This, btw because somebody asked, is the main price driver in demantoid: the pureness and strength of green. Too bright, or too much brown, grey or yellow, they may not be called 'demantoid' but 'grossular garnet' or andratite, hessonite, etc (like this or this) and valued lower, still nice and sparkly, if clean and without window and you like the color, then a bargain, but in demantoid you pay for 'green-ness'.
