I will need some good eyes to tell me, if the sapphire attached looks like a special gem ? It is a certified non heated, pink sapphire from Sri Lanka. (I tried my best to adjust the colour of the taken photo from my camera to appear like the real gem colour.)
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Looks like a pink sapphire to me as well. It is beautiful. I think you might be hoping someone will call this a padparadsha. (Someone probably would. Not me.) I do not think it has enough of an orange component to technically fall into that category. See: Padparadscha Sapphire • Ownership of Words • Lotus Gemology
Alan Hodgkinson has been known to carry a large padparadsha in his pocket that is more pastel than the gem pictured above. For me, that would be the perfect color.
Hi I wish I have someone who can look at the stone with me in real life. It is similar to this padparadcha I found online. (Attached) I couldn’t really capture the colour and saturation well enough, oh well•• not a good camera.
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If your stone looks more like this last picture than like your own first pictures, it might very well be called padparadscha. Otherwise it is just a pinkish windowed sapphire (we don't even know the size or weight). Make your choice !
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