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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 435198, member: 5833"]Holly knows way more about fine jewellery than I do. I can't make any guesses about the stones based on how they are cut, but it's possible they are lab grown corundum, the mineral of rubies & sapphires. Ruby is really a color designation & just how red a stone has to be to qualify is somewhat subjective:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.gemsociety.org/article/distinguishing-rubies-pink-sapphires/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.gemsociety.org/article/distinguishing-rubies-pink-sapphires/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gemsociety.org/article/distinguishing-rubies-pink-sapphires/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anything that doesn't make the cut & isn't blue is a 'fancy sapphire'.</p><p><br /></p><p>They grow it in huge crystals, so karatage is not a big deal. The stones do not have great value but they are genuine rubies/sapphires, just not natural ones. There are lots of older gold rings with glass stones, but usually not with this much 14K.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Holly said, you would have to test to know. Tourmaline can be this color, but doubt that's what these are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 435198, member: 5833"]Holly knows way more about fine jewellery than I do. I can't make any guesses about the stones based on how they are cut, but it's possible they are lab grown corundum, the mineral of rubies & sapphires. Ruby is really a color designation & just how red a stone has to be to qualify is somewhat subjective: [URL]https://www.gemsociety.org/article/distinguishing-rubies-pink-sapphires/[/URL] Anything that doesn't make the cut & isn't blue is a 'fancy sapphire'. They grow it in huge crystals, so karatage is not a big deal. The stones do not have great value but they are genuine rubies/sapphires, just not natural ones. There are lots of older gold rings with glass stones, but usually not with this much 14K. As Holly said, you would have to test to know. Tourmaline can be this color, but doubt that's what these are.[/QUOTE]
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