Gem: Color change blue to pink garnets
Weight: 0.18 ctw.
Dimensions: Approx. 2 mm each
Clarity: VS (a few needles), but they present as eye clean.
Origin: Bekily, Madagascar
Treatments: None
Comments:
This is classic gem material for a reason! These garnets, and a kind of color change blue garnet from Kenya are the two main, noteworthy deposits of blue CC garnets. They are not common or bountiful from either location. Bekily arguably has a better pedigree as far as color change goes, but both are exceptional.
This set of 4 are more or less a matched set. There is a very small amount of variation in diameter, and an even smaller variation in color. Worst case, if you are being picky, there is a slightly larger, slightly lighter color matched pair, as well as a slightly smaller, and slightly darker blue matched pair.
Any way you slice it, these are hard to find! I have priced CC blue garnets of all sizes at or above $1k/ ct. in the past, but I got such a good deal on a small parcel of them that I can deeply cut that price.