Sapphire Natural Purple (mostly red hues)

Cotton fibers from the stone packing cases may be photographed on the stone.  Fibers are noted looking through the stone (not inclusions)

Type: Sapphire Natural

Origin: Luc Yen, Vietnam

Weight: 0.88

Color: Purple leaning to Red

Cut: Oval (Foreign flatface style)

Clarity: VVS

Size: 6 x 6.5 mm mm

Treatments: No known Treatment

Genealogy: Miner to Broker in Saigon. Cut in Saigon

Hardness: 9

Source: Broker 3 Saigon

Comments: This stone is cut fairly flat but has tremendous colouring pigmentations of red and blue corundum. Most will call this a purple stone but it has a strong ruby component from an area 2nd only to Burma.

Cotton fibers from the stone packing cases may be photographed on the stone.