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Tanzanian Zircon Golden brownish Zircon from Tanzania. In my eyes Zircons are too often overseen as they are such a sparkling and brillant gem material. Easy to cut and always takes a fine & fast polish and easily to detect due to its strong birefringence. 2.01 cts., 6.5 x 5.3 mm available |
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Surselva Smoky Quartz The nicest Smoky Quartzes comes from (in my opinion) the Surselva region in Switzerland. They often have a warm and charming brown colour instead of the often seen greyish ones. This is faceted as a "Floret" even it is not a small gem I decided for the floret-pattern and it is shown so well, Completely clean 4.52 cts., 10.9 x 8.6 mm available |
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Ampanihy Pink Silk Garnet The biggest of the "Ampanihy Pink Silk"-Garnets I have cut so far. Great colour as always but with visible internal and some on the surface.For those who can handle the small inclusions it is still a nice gem. 3.89 cts., 10.9 x 8.5 x 6.8 mm available |
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Vatomandry Sapphire Colour-changing Sapphire from Vatomandry, Madagascar. Bluish purplish grey in daylight and purplish red in incandescent light. A strong and hard light shows some reflecting Rutiles.otherwise it's a clean gem. 1.35 cts., 6.3 x 4.4 mm available |
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Vatomandry Sapphire Another colour-shifting Sapphire from? Yes! Vatomandry in Madagascar. Ghost-Rutile? Yes, of course and the first pic was made with daylight and the secon with incandescent light. 1.59 cts., 6.6 x 4.8 mm available |
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Tanzanian Rhodolite A very dark example of tanzanian Garnet with the round Trinity cut. One of the bigger one in this newsletter, dark with here and there a red flash.. 3.23 cts., 8.5 x 7.0 mm available |
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Songea Sapphire Dark greenish blue Sapphire from tanzanias Songea. Untreated with a strong blue c-axis while the A1- & A2 axes are greenish yellow. This gem loves daylight and gets weaker in bulb-light. 0.75 cts., 6.0 x 4.4 x 3.9 mm available |
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Vatomandry Sapphire A similar kind of Sapphire also from Vatomandry in Madagascar. Colour-shifting from purplish pink to a smoothpink in incandescent light and with some Rutiles inside. As long as the light doesn't get caught be the Rutile-plain the Rutile-"ghosts" are nearly invisible. 0.46 cts., 4.8 x 3.4 mm available |
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Amethyst Great coloured Amethyst in the sevensided "Siebenstern"-design It was a boring round native cut with no life. Perfectly clean. 1.32 cts., 7.3 x 5.5 mm available |
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Erongo Demantoid This one was a hard fight. The rough was a big piece with 2.5 gram and only one half had a better clarity. The result still has many internals, but hey this is a Demantoid with over one carat! WIsh I would have more roughs even with this inclusions. The "Lighthouse of Porporela" with extra steep angles gave an extra portion of colour and dispersive flashes. 1.22 cts., 6.7 x 5.6 x 4.8 mm available |
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Bolivian Ametrine The bolivian Ametrines are harder to find on fairs like SMAM or the Munich Show and I have my stock close to exhausted. Hope that this year in the Vosges Mountains (SMAM) I will find some new ones. Here I have a bigger one that was faceted into Marco Voltolini's Cushion cut but received an extra row of facets on the crown. There is just thing I have to say against this one: There is a trouble zone of an imperfectly healed crack at around 4 o`clock. Please click on the pic to see it better. 13.91 cts., 15.4 x 12.8 x 12.1 mm available |
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Russian Citrine Slightly golden to strawish yellow colour with no colour zoning, glassy clean. 11.19 cts., 15.4 x 9.8 mm available |
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Madagascan Teal Sapphire Another fine example of t he new Sapphires from the gem-isand Madagascar. Found - as most Sapphire & Rubies from Mada - in the steep mountains of the east coast. Here you can see some very decent internals, even enough not to detract its brilliance and sparkles but enough to prove its natural origin and being free from any treatment. Anyway irl this big beauty has a much more vivid teal colour compared with this poor pic! 2.43 cts., 7.5 x 6.3 x 6.0 mm available |
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Brazil Morganite Supersoft pink Morganite from Brazil in the new floret design that I got inspired by the rosette of an mediavel guitar (sounds strange? Ok, it is, but works!). Clean & brilliant gem. 0.90 cts., 6.3 x 5.0 mm available |
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Turkish Chalcedony Greyish light blue Chalcedony from Turkey. Mineralogically the same as Chrysoprase but with no Nickel as colour reason. Strong silk and very nice glowing from the inside. 1.99 cts., 8.6 x 5.9 mm available |
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Madagascan Rhodolite The original "Glacial Ice" design in a dark-red madagascan Rhodolite. The name of this design comes from a trekking tour in the alps when I was so impressed by the many glaciers and its icy-blue colours in the early summer. I first cut it into an alpine Smok Quartz. But this one shows more of a equatorial heat. Anyway a bit unusual mandrel-shape. 0.67 cts., 5.2 x 5.2 x 3.8 mm available |
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Tanzanian Rhodolite Dark red Rhodolite from Tanzania. eyeclean and brilliant. 0.92 cts., 5.5 x 3.9 mm available |
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Tocantin Almandite The Almandites from Tocantin in Brazil occur in big crystals in sizes up to a golf ball. Some hundred meters under the earth surface is a metamorphic layer with superficial strong eroded crystals. Only small parts are usable for faceting due to inclusions and dark colour. But there is a nice magenta hue 0.92 cts., 5.4 x 3.9 mm available |
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Vatomandry Sapphire Greyish blue Sapphire from Vatomandry in Madagascar. Lots of tiny little inclusion makes it look a bit silky 0.77 cts., 5.5 x 4.0 mm available |
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Rescued Tourmaline From a parcel of native cut Tourmalines this one caught my eyes at first and screamed "I wanna become something much better". Done, the result is the "Flandriant" design a squarish brilliant with lots of life. It loves natural daylight while incandescent or LED light adds some brownish modifiers. 1.77 cts., 7.1 x 5.5 mm available |
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Achroite Is this Achroite or just a very light yellow? Hard to say. What I surely can say is this gem is brilliant and has good clarity just some internals at half past five and faceted in my "5er Brillant" design. 1.26 cts., 6.9 x 4.9 mm available |
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Pink Tourmaline Weighing close to one carat this pink Tourmaline doesn't changes or shifts its colour into brownish in incandescent light. Some internals that are not very visible with unaided eyes. 0.98 cts., 6.2 x 4.9 mm available |
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Ejeda Spessartine My madagascar-dealer surprised me this summer with a lot of Spessartines from Ejeda. I didn´t knew that Madagascar also has orange coloured Spessartines. Maybe not the same type of colour as Mandarin-Garnets used to have but the internals with some horsetail like inclusions reminds me on the very few ones from Namibia. Cool stuff with very unusual colour, a fine addition for garnet lovers! 4.61 cts., 12.2 x 9.9 x 6.3 mm available |
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Blue Topas Very brillant sky-blue Topaz (treated) with an additional row of facet in the pavilion. 2.06 cts., 7.4 x 5.5 mm available |
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Tanzanian Rhodolite Pure red and very big Rhodolite in my "Opposed Bar" version. Flawless and absolutely no colour change. Bought the rough this year at the Munich Show and was happy to find a rough Garnet with the perfect shape for this design. 8.91 cts., 17.1 x 6.7 x 7.5 mm available |
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Queensland Sapphire Little eyeclean greenish-blue Sapphire from Queensland, Australia, untreated. 0.34 cts., 3.7 x 3.7 x 2.8 mm available |
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Marolambo Rhodolite An "11Phase" cut Marolambo Garnet with some internals and nice colour. 1.66 cts., 7,8 x 4.4 mm available |
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Madagascan Rose Quartz This big triilion shaped gem is a top Rose Quartz from Madagascar. Had to worked around some superficial troubles at the rough stone to get the best out of it and it is still a big gem. Only a small amount of silk shimmers through the soft pinkish colour. 7.81 cts., 13.0 x 10.2 mm available |
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Madagascan Chalcedony This years Munich Show was in the dimension of the pre covid years with over thousand dealers from all over the world. I was focused on Chalcedonies in different colours after I'm very familiar with this gem (details will result in a special newsletter sometime when I have emough different stuff). This one is from Madagascar the a very decent hue and shows the soft and slightx glowing that is zypical for lighter Chalcedonies. I just love them even the daceting is time consuming due to the unexpectable hardness of the micro Quartzes. 2.88 cts., 9.3 x 6.8 mm available |
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Light Surselva Smoky Quartz Very light Surselva Smoky Quartz with only slightest greyish-brownish hue. Some very tiny internals otherwise perfectly clean, the right material to show fascinating Trinity pattern. 14.94 cts., 15.3 x 13.3 mm available |
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Madagascan Hessonite Intense orange glowing Hessonite from Madagascar. The pavilion is a portuguese-type and reflects the light very well. In combination with a SRB-crown this is a modern and classical gem at the same time.Due to its multi-crystal structure it is silky and has some internals. 2.82 cts., 8.4 x 5.9 mm available |
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Ampanihy Rhodolite The originally "Pipistrelli" in a darker Ampanihy RHodolite. I love this easy & fast cut, it helps me to turn small roughs and nice gems. 0.75 cts., 6.3 x 3.9 mm available |
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Madagascan Girasol-Quartz Pipistrelli Girasol-Quartz from Madagascar, clean (with some silk) and brilliant. 6.73 cts., 13.6 x 9.9 mm available |
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Tunduru Garnet Ten years ago I purchased a parcel of small rough from Tunduru from a married couple who travelled around the world and collected rough gems in creeks and quarries. This is a nice addition for Garnet collectors. Some fine silk only, otherwise clean. 0.47 cts., 4.6 x 3.1 mm available |
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Marolambo Rhodolite Very saturated and dark (but not too dark!) Rhodolite from Marolambo in Madagascar. There are some internals visible - also for the naked eye - but not too prominent. Still a big sparkler! 5.54 cts., 11.2 x 8.0 mm available |
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Utah Apache Tear Volcanic glas from Utah. A bit tricky to cut and polish due internal tensions but always worth faceting this special type of gem. Some hard to find internals surrounded by a fine and soft brownish colour. 0.97 cts., 6.6 x 4.9 mm available |
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Madagascan Rhodolite The original "Glacial Ice" design in a dark-red madagascan Rhodolite. The name of this design comes from a trekking tour in the alps when I was so impressed by the many glaciers and its icy-blue colours in the early summer. I first cut it into an alpine Smok Quartz. But this one shows more of a equatorial heat. Anyway a bit unusual mandrel-shape. 0.67 cts., 5.2 x 5.2 x 3.8 mm available |
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