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All about sapphires:

Sapphire comes in a wide range of blues, varying from very light blue to a deep blue that is almost black. The very finest sapphires are a velvet, slightly violetish medium to medium dark blue, often called Kashmir blue, after its original location in India. When pricing sapphires, medium blues are usually the most expensive. Colors you might find are:

Blue Sapphires

With the exception of the rare and collectable padparadscha sapphires, blue sapphires are thought of as the most desirable and expensive of the entire sapphire family.

Ranging in color from pale pastel blues all the way through to the darkest of midnight blue, the most beautiful blue sapphire colors and the highest values sit in the middle of the blue-color range. While the pale blues and darker midnight blues offer the purchaser the best value, the rare and captivating cornflower blues offer the consumer unbeatable color with a captivating beauty.

Padparadsha Sapphires

Sapphires that combine the three colors of pink, purple and orange in one gem can resemble the famed and beautiful lotus flower known to the Ceylonese as “padparadsha”. Taking its name from the flower, padparadscha sapphires are so rare and beautiful that they are highly prized and valued by collectors and connoisseurs. Widely regarded as the most valuable of all sapphires, prices can reach many thousands of dollars per Carat.

Pink Sapphires

After the seductive tones of padparadsha and blue sapphire, the next most highly valued member of the family is pink sapphire. Ambiguously sharing a color border with ruby, many pink sapphires are so close to this boundary they are termed as “hot pink” with prices being extremely high.

For those pink sapphire that remain firmly within the color realms of pink, consumers are offered a color range from good value pastel pink shades to the more expensive but vibrant colors that approach the hot pinks. Perennially the fancy sapphire favorite, pinks sapphires are often used in conjunction with blue sapphires to make interesting alternatives to accent diamonds displaying bright, colorful but harmonious contrasts within a single piece of jewelry.

Yellow Sapphires

Ranging from pleasing butter like colors to intensely beautiful canary yellows, yellow sapphires provide both beauty and value within the same gem.

Purple Sapphires

At their best, purple sapphires display rich purple-pink colors reminiscent of orchids.

Green Sapphires

Displaying a range of green hues, from colors hinting of olives through to wine bottle like greens, green sapphires are the least demanded of the sapphire family. Therefore, they're the cheapest.

Star Sapphires

Star sapphires have long been coveted for their beautiful and mysterious optical effects. Glance at a star sapphire and you will see six or even twelve rayed stars silently gliding across the gemstone’s surface. With their very bright and lustrous star formations, star sapphires have traditionally been the most popular of all star gemstones.

To improve a sapphire's color and clarity, it is often subjected to controlled heating. This is a permanent enhancement that is well accepted by jewelers. Sapphire is second only to diamond in hardness, which made them difficult to facet until modern cutting technology was developed. Cut stones are available in sizes up to 10 carats, with one to five carat gems most common.

Sapphire is remarkably tough and safe in most types of cleaning. However, it should be given the same care as any other precious gem to avoid scratching. Most damage to sapphires occurs from rubbing them against another sapphire or diamond, careless handling and hard knocks directly to the stones.