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Re: [Orchid] Pink Sapphire or Pale Ruby?  
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From: Daniel R. Spirer
Date: Wed Oct 10 04:52:49 2007
 
     
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>     If one were to put a geologist,crystallographer,jeweler,and lab
>     owner in the same room with the same stones and were asked to write
>     a brief description of the stones shown, I have no doubt they would
>     all write something different- who's to say one is more right than
>     the other as they have all been trained in similar sciences that
>     are worlds apart... 

    That may be, but on this list of jewelers, the only opinion that
    truly matters (because we're jewelers, not geologists) is those of
    the gemologists. Last I read, ruby and sapphire were still both
    corundum. Ruby is simply the red variety. You can dress it up all
    you want, but they're still both corundum. Just like garnets are
    garnets, regardless of color and variety. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.spirerjewelers.com
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