All That Glitters Website and Info Changes for May 2019!

Here are the changes on the All That Glitters Website for May 2019:

This Month's Special:  http://www.allthatglitters.co/Monthly_Special.htm

Visit our Monthly Special Page…

This Month’s Gem News:   What You Didn’t Know About Padparadscha

http://www.allthatglitters.co/Monthly_News.htm

“Connoisseurs have long swooned over the mythical hues of padparadscha sapphire. With few jewelry lovers knowing anything about the stone, UK's Princess Eugenie put the spotlight on this winsome treasure in 2018…”

Read More… 

Newly Faceted or Newly Photographed Gemstones: 

http://www.allthatglitters.co/Photos_New.htm

Two incredibly beautiful, intricate 18kt White Gold Rings have been custom created and are described below:

   GIA Certed Pad surrounded by Diamonds and flanked by Glowing Blue Sapphires/Pad-like Sapphires in 18kt White Gold

   Montana Sapphire surrounded by White Sapphire and Matching Blue Sapphire Melee in 18kt White Gold

Recently GIA Certed Fine Gems:

   Alexandrite – Brasilian

   Color Change Garnet – large, changing from various greens to various purples -  super colors under more than one source!

   Ruby – 1.25ct described as a Purplish Red

   Sapphire - unique pink/salmon depending on available lights/wavelengths

Three Blue Flash Amethysts and Fancy Uniquely Colored Small Garnets are back from the cutters (no photos currently as it is very difficult to capture the true color of these pieces.  Contact us if interested.)

Large,  just under 7ct U.S. Faceted, Mint Merelani Garnet

Montana Sapphire, bluish green to green in color, elongated emerald cut, faceted in the U.S.

Two Ametrines are back from our cutters, with one have a ‘double bubble’ created in the very center - (SOLD!)

Andalusite – small old parcel with good color  (SOLD!)

Aquamarine Parcel, Matched Pieces (SOLD!)

Quartz - Included      

Sapphire –Green (2), Purple (2), Neony Bubble Gum Pink (Certed), Montana Sapphire, Parti-Colored Slice

Spinel – purply blue (Madagascar Origin (SOLD! - Singapore)

Spinel - unique reddish orange from Vietnam

Topaz – large wonderful orangy sherry color

Tourmaline – Trapiche from Zambia

Tsavorite – super glowing green large round (SOLD!)

Zircon – Deep Blue  (SOLD!)

Specimens include:

Agate – Cube from Russia (beautiful and a must see!)

Skarn – Fantastic natural skarn framed slab from Russia (40 yo find); looks like a drawing or sketch!

Tourmaline, 1 crystal and one terminated quartz with green/blue tourmaline crystals/segments

Rough – Behind the scenes and to be cut in the future:

Aquamarine

Large Unique Grossular Garnets, slight color shift

Purple Garnets

Unique Color Shifting Garnets

Antiquities:

Carnelian Seal – wonderful chariot scene with Greek Aegean Star (possibly a former pendant)

Agate Cylinder Seal  - one of the largest we have ever seen with incredible well designed/incised hunting scene - Important!

Roman Seal (Hercules) – believe to be clear/grey Agate and could have originally been in a ring

Roman Bronze depicting what looks like an athlete possibly in a shot put competition (said to be Cupid)

                                                                           

Gemstones in Cutting:

We have two large 100ct Oregon Sunstones that will be carved and/or cut by the multi-award winning cutter, Dalan Hargrave.  Dalan has reached out to us recently to indicate his thoughts on how he would approach the cutting of each piece, and we hope that these pieces will be as beautiful as his past pieces – many destined to be in major collections and museums.  We gave him the thumbs up to begin working his magic, and some of his pieces are indeed magical!  We are currently awaiting the results. 

Back from the Cutters:

One of our U.S. cutters of distinction continues to produce a few beauties from the rough we send him, though he typically doesn’t have the time to cut for us on a regular basis.  This time, an incredible Mint Merelani Garnet (Grossular) of just under 7cts has recently returned, as well as a 2.42ct elongated emerald cut Montana Sapphire of a blue/green color.  These Mint Merelanis have been incredibly popular due to the brilliance, unique color in the gemstone world, hints of dispersion and prices can be quite high.  One of our friends/associates faceted a very large one back about 15 years ago and it wholesaled at $90,000.  We saw a 3.15ct elongated cushion in Tucson wholesaling at about $1500/ct, which in today’s market is very decent price.  We know of a 1.6+ct round in NYC and their retail price is about $2500/ct.  This newly faceted large Mint Merelani is priced to move at the typical  All That Glitters low low price – check it out on our Newly Photographed page or our main Garnet page – note that the Mint Merelani is related to Tsavorite Garnet.