Loose Gems

This nice big stone shows amazing sparkle and good color change between incandescent (pinker) to daylight (bluer).

UNTREATED, totally natural, Sapphire from Columbia, cut in one of original OMNI Oval designs. This gem has fascinating character. It's eye clean, but under high magnification, it shows a sprinkling of included crystals. I spent hours with this gem under a microscope!

This uncooked natural parti-colored Sapphire from Nigeria is cut in a unique fancy Freeform Barion design. This gem shows sky blue in the center with yellow toward the ends. The colors shift around as the angle of view changes.

This uncooked natural Sapphire from Nigeria is cut in a unique fancy Freeform Barion design. This gem shows deep, velvety-blue color throughout - which is very difficult to find in untreated material!

This uncooked natural Sapphire from Nigeria is cut in a standard round brilliant design. Typical of much uncooked Sapphire, it shows significant green overtones and flashes, depending upon lighting. Untreated material is ever more difficult to find - especially in pieces this large and clean.

Dark Pink Sapphire from the mountains of Columbia - a mine no longer producing due to guerrilla activity. This stone is almost a full carat, and though it shows chevrons at some angles, it is still quite pretty - and a bargain. It is one of only two pinks that I acquired from this mine…

This natural, untreated Australian Sapphire is cut in a fancy apex crown design. It is cut across the optic axis so it flashes both midnight blue and dark green in an almost cat-eye-like pattern.

Natural, untreated blue-green Sapphire mined by my friends in Australia.

This little blue beauty came from my friends down under. It has a wonderful, even, velvety-blue color, and is certified untreated. Cut in a fancy checkerboard design, this one is guaranteed to capture attention. Heat Treated.

This bargain stone is the first cut of my Re-Check design - a reflector pavilion with a checker cushion crown.
This is a very unique piece offered at a bargain price for a certified "first cut of design", and over one and a quarter carats of weight.

This was the first test cut stone faceted on the new MOM (multi-optic) faceting machine!

Natural Pink Spinel from Badakshan, Tajikstan, faceted in my own LoneStar design. This gem has a unique orangy color that is rare in Spinel.

Perfect natural hot-pink Tunduru Spinel in a fancy apex design - Really hot and ready for your standard-size setting. This stone is next-to-top color! This gem was finished with my Voodoo Polish.

Deep Chrome diopside in a standard emerald cut. This stone is a dark, rich color that nearly hides the flaw at one end.

I do not know the nature of the needle inclusion. The precious play of color is just detectible. This gem was finished with my Voodoo Polish.

Juicy orange Spessartite "Mandarin" garnet from Afghanistan. This piece is pretty heavily included, as is typical of this origin. The color is so intense that you hardly notice, though.