Cut stone
2.84ct Mandarin Spessartine Garnet
2.84 ct · Spessartine · Garnet
Pure saturated orange with no brown in it — the colour the variety is named for.
$2,680
$943.66 per carat · AUD, GST included where applicable
- Insured, signature-on-delivery shipping worldwide from Sydney.
- Seven days from delivery to inspect and return for a full refund.
- One of a kind — when it sells it is gone, and the listing stays up as a record.
About this stone
Mandarin spessartine at its best is a flat, saturated orange with no brown and no red pull, and that is what this is. Nigerian material, untreated as spessartine invariably is, eye clean and well proportioned.
Garnet is a family rather than a colour, and spessartine is the one that surprises people who think they know what garnet looks like.
Specification
| Form | Cut stone |
|---|---|
| Species | Garnet — Spessartine |
| Weight | 2.84 ct |
| Shape | Oval |
| Measurements | 8.4 × 7.2 × 5.1 mm |
| Colour | Pure saturated orange, no brown, no red modifier |
| Colour family | Orange |
| Clarity | Eye clean |
| Origin | Nigeriaour assessment |
How big it actually is
Treatment & certification
Unheated
No heat and no other treatment of any kind. Bought at source, so the heat status is known rather than assumed.
How we know
Untreated. Not laboratory tested — spessartine is not heat treated in the trade; the colour is what came out of the ground.
Certification available on request$650
We’ll send this stone to GIA, SSEF, Gübelin, GRS or Lotus and it ships with the report. Add it at checkout — the stone and the report are paid for together, the stone then goes to the laboratory, and nothing is dispatched until the report is back. Allow three to six weeks.
We use the international laboratories rather than local ones, which is the point of paying for it.
Every listing on this site states its treatment, including when the honest answer is that we don’t know. How we describe stones.
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