So when a purplish red ruby is set in yellow the yellow of the metal cancels out the blue in the purple leaving behind guess what an almost visually pure red pictured above a 1 63 carat gem quality old mine burma ruby with a grs pigeon s blood certificate.
Pigeon blood red ruby.
Make offer 2 89 cts burma ruby pigeon blood red oval shape 7 5mm x8 5m natural mogok mine 3 00 ct transparent burmish pigeon blood red ruby gemstone gie certified 3272 0 99 6d 12h.
Pigeon s blood color is a vivid red color high intensity and low tone e g.
The grs gemresearch swisslab ag created an official definition of pigeon s blood by creating a scale based on the intensity of red in rubies.
They also have extreme red fluorescence.
Platinum pin with diamonds and myanmar rubies approximately 0 8 1 3 cts.
The color of a ruby is due to the element chromium.
This proliferation of reports certifying that stones exhibit pigeon s blood red marks the second great paper chase for lab documents in 35 years.
Traditional descriptions like these are useful for evoking images and describing color among professionals.
Pigeon blood ruby is the most sought after color variety of ruby gemstone.
A ruby is a pink to blood red coloured gemstone a variety of the mineral corundum aluminium oxide other varieties of gem quality corundum are called sapphires ruby is one of the traditional cardinal gems together with amethyst sapphire emerald and diamond.
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The pigeon s blood sunrise ruby sold for a record 30 3 million at sotheby s in 2015.
The word ruby comes from ruber latin for red.
In 1979 american gemological laboratories introduced the first ever colored stone grading reports.
No brown and orange overtones of a certain group of natural rubies.
Rubies exhibit medium to strong fluorescence if exposed to uv 365nm light report samples.
They have the coveted near perfect coloring known as pigeon s blood red which is a very slightly purplish red with vivid saturation and dark tone.
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Historically the term pigeon s blood described the red to slightly purplish or pinkish red color of rubies with a soft glowing red fluorescence.
Pigeon blood ruby meaning is primarily associated with its color that matches exactly with the blood drawn from a freshly killed pigeon it displays bright red hue with a slight tint of purple that appears deep red when seen in light.
