How to Shop for Sapphires

When shopping for Sapphires, quality and price depend in part on color. Fine yellow, orange, and pink sapphires will command a fairly high price due to their rarity. Other colors, such as the dark, dark blue that almost looks black, will be very inexpensive.

Steps
1. Learn that the most valuable sapphires have a medium intense, vivid blue color. The best sapphires hold the brightness of their color under all different types of lighting. Any black, gray, or green overtones mixed in with the blue will reduce a stone's value. In general, a more pastel blue would be less preferred than a vivid blue but would be priced higher than an over dark blackish blue color.
o Blue stones are best with a violet overtone; a green overtone is less desirable, as are gray-tinged or lightly colored blues.
o Pinks should be of uniform color. Best is "hot" pink; little to no lavender or brown overtone.
o Purple should resemble fine amethyst, but somewhat redder.
o Stay away from yellows with a brownish cast. Orange-Yellows are worth more than pure yellow.
o Greens should not show an olive or gray tinge.

2. Know that as with all gemstones, sapphires which are "clean" and have few visible inclusions or tiny flaws are the most valuable. However some very fine sapphires, in particular those from Kashmir, have a velvety mist-like texture which enhances the richness of the blue.

3. Sapphires are most often cut in a cushion shape - a rounded rectangle - or an oval shape. You can also find smaller sapphires in round brilliant cuts and a wide variety of fancy shapes, including triangles, squares, emerald cuts, marquises, pear shapes, baguette shapes, and cabochon cuts, or smooth domes.

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