posted on November 30, 2005 04:24:56 AM new
I guess anything is possible. My HS ring had a diamond. Not that nearly that big, though. My vote is for glass. I know with my HS rings they offered birthstones that were glass. In the first photo it looks scratched at the facet edge (for lack of better description)? Isn't an emerald a hard stone? If it's a real emerald, it's a nice one.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on November 30, 2005 04:57:54 AM new
Cheryl is absolutely right. Not an emerald, and maybe not even glass. The way the stone is abraded it looks more like plastic.
His wife's a jeweler? Let me take you on a tour of the Bay Area's discount diamond center, where there are hundreds of "jewelers" laboring at minimum wage creating custom jewelry out of crappy inclusion-ridden diamonds and cheap paper-thin settings.
posted on November 30, 2005 06:36:33 AM new
LOL, fluffy. Maybe some parents are stupid, but mine never would have had a valuable emerald set into a class ring for me as a teenager! I had my class ring all of two years before it went missing. BTW, my diamond was one of those pinpoint diamonds that took a loupe to even find. Even then, my parents thought they were being extravagant. I suspect that the seller isn't going to like his feedback on this particular ring.
Cheryl
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on November 30, 2005 09:13:06 AM new
Doubt myself that emeralds would scratch like that.If they did, who would want to buy one? Personally I think it is glass.
buyhigh
posted on November 30, 2005 09:34:24 AM new
emerald scratch easily,diamond,ruby,saphire are the hard stones,but not emerald.
Emerald also needs to be greased,wear it often .
posted on November 30, 2005 09:42:28 AM new
Hwahwa, its glass.
I have never seen a class ring with real emerald that large before and I seriously doubt someone would go to the trouble and only mount it in 10K.
Not to mention that an emerald that size, Brazilian or otherwise would not be wasted on a class ring. If the kid was that spoiled, the design would be much nicer.
posted on November 30, 2005 12:50:01 PM new
on MOHS' SCALE OF HARDNESS FROM 1 -10,10 being the hardest,
diamond is 10 while talc is 1.
emerald ,being part of the beryl family ,rates a 7.5 while ruby and saphire are higher.
It could be doublet or triplet- a piece of glass with a green stone ,you wont know until you take the stone out of the setting.
/ lets all stop whining !! /
