The stones few people see.
Natural fancy colours and unusual cuts, found through cutters and dealers I have known for years.
Natural pinkCushion
Request a specific stoneEvery colournature makes.
Natural colour is graded by hue and by strength, from Faint to Fancy Vivid. Choose a colour and an intensity, and turn the stone.
Fancy Intense Pink
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Fancy Intense
Pink
Among the rarest of all. The leading theory is that pressure deep in the earth bent the crystal itself. Australia’s Argyle mine, once the source of most fine pinks, closed in 2020.
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Real stones, with real reports, will live here. Press and hold any stone on its page to look through the loupe.
Cuts you won’t findin a showroom tray.
Many of these are cut once and never again. I can tell you what is out there, what it should cost, and what to look for.
Old mine
Cut by hand before 1900
Old European
The round before the brilliant
Rose cut
A flat back and a faceted dome
Kite
Four sides, one long point
Shield
A heraldic outline
Half moon
Made to flank a centre stone
Hexagon
Six sides, cut in steps
Trapezoid
The classic side stone
Briolette
Facets all over, no table
Portrait cut
Thin as glass, to see through
The stone you’vebeen searching for.
A colour, a shape, a size, a matched pair. I ask the cutters and dealers I have known for years and come back with what exists, on video, with its report. There is no charge to ask.
I am Harsh. And I tell the truth, cut, polished, and certified.
Harsh Sanghavi
Bharat Diamond Bourse, Mumbai
No charge and no obligation, whatever you decide.
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