I bought the green quartz ring . I had hoped for a rich tourmaline effect but it was so dark I couldn't get any flashes of green from it, not even under very strong light from behind the stone, so back it went.
When I've seen that morganite shown, it looked to have more colour.
Today I got a blue sapphire ring delivered, (bought on instructions for a gift for a friend of a friend!).... it has 2.23 cts of sapphire in 3gms of gold......though it neither looks, nor feels that much in my hand.... the sapphires, which in the photos look a lovely rich blue are, in fact, black as pitch... the only blue can be seen via a backlight... and I don't know many people with backlit fingers!! If it were for me, it'd be heading right back to Rocks Towers, but chum is delighted, so there you are!
What with rings that photograph well and are 'orrible to rings which are gorgeous in real life but do not show well in any photo..... who said the camera doesn't lie?
Thank goodness we can get these items home to decide then whether to keep them or not. Strangely enough, I don't remember ever having this sort of bother in the "old days" of TV shopping ......or is it that I am, along with the zimmer and the hearing aid, in need of stronger specs???!!!! :33::54:
