Antique Sapphire Engagement Ring
Although the meaning of sapphire is “blue” in Latin, antique sapphire engagement rings have a rainbow of colors. However the most natural and beautiful color is definitely the deep, royal blue. While selecting an antique engagement ring, you should always make sure that the color does not change when you look it through varying light. Besides blue, sapphire comes in red, yellow, green, purple, pink and orange.
Purple – Purple sapphires are plum in color. The lighter shades are almost closer to pink in color, especially when exposed to the light.
Pink – Many times pink sapphires are misconceived as pink rubies. So you got to be very careful while you are selecting this kind of sapphire.
Orange – These sapphires are considered to be the most expensive ones. Those with a darker, red-orange color are the finest of the sapphires.
Yellow – To select a yellow sapphire is a little tricky. Be sure to know what you are going for. Its light appearance makes it seemed more transparent, but a light-yellow color would be what you are searching for.
Padparadscha – Only found in Sri Lanka, this is a very rare and expensive sapphire and is pink-orange in color. The padparadscha stone should have both colors evident to be considered this type of fancy sapphire.
Started from the middle ages, sapphires have been used for augury and witchcraft. People believed that the sapphire would keep evil things and sickness away from them. Evidence showed that sapphire rings have been popular for many centuries. In 1880, there was an avalanche, exposing a cache of Kashmir Sapphire gemstones, which was intensively mined for eight years and set a standard for the most valuable modern Sapphires in the world. Burma mines the second most valuable Sapphires, followed the trail was
Ceylon. Today most Blue Sapphires are mined in Thailand and Australia but some courageous pioneers were responsible for the increase in demand for Yellow Sapphire and Pink Sapphires when they discovered mines in southeast Madagascar.
Modern antique sapphire engagement rings started in the fashion around 1919 when the demand on diamond rings began to slide. Sapphires are hard stones thus have high durability. All the values depended on its size, color, cut and transparency. Beautiful antique sapphire engagement rings evoke the feelings of love, loyalty, and commitment and faithfulness. All these qualities made antique engagement ring a wonderful alternative to diamond engagement rings. Also statistics showed that sapphire engagement rings
have become the number two engagement rings second to diamond engagement ring.
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