Accompanied by GIA certificate no. 6152587056 indicating: “Treatment: No indications of heating” and GRS (GemResearch Swisslab) certificate no. GRS 2013–030321T for the Padparadscha indicating: “Identification: Natural Orange-Pink Sapphire”, “Natural Padparadscha” and “No indication of thermal treatment”.

Ruby - The Gem of Passion:

Ruby is the rarest of all the major precious stones, with only a handful of sources producing good qualities in quantity. Next to diamonds, ruby (corundum) is the hardest mineral known and is very compact and dense, with no cleavage. As a result, rubies are one of the best and most popular of all jewellery stones.

Large rubies of high quality are far more rare than large sapphires of equal quality. Indeed, any untreated ruby of good quality above two carats is a rare stone. Untreated rubies of fine quality above five carats are extremely rare and are world-class pieces. Rubies together with fancy diamonds are the most valuable of all gemstones in the world today. Important ruby origins today are Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Mozambique and Tanzania. Myanmar Mogok rubies are the traditional source of the world's finest rubies. This storied deposit was known for over 1000 years as the home of the finest rubies on the planet.

A Padparadscha is a sapphire with a unique colour combination of orange-pink. The name of the gemstone derives from the Sinhalese word for lotus blossom.

The Padparadscha was first discovered around the year 1750 in Ceylon, today known as Sri Lanka, and the stones are considered to be among the rarest of gemstones.

Within recent years deposits have been found in Vietnam and Tanzania, and the stones are being used for the most exquisite jewels, thereby causing their popularity to rise considerably. Due to the great beauty and rarity of the Padparadscha, high quality stones are valued similar to large diamonds and rubies of the highest quality.

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