Happy birthday September babies! We are just awing over the gorgeous sapphires that you have to choose from as your birthstone. McCaskill & Company has quite a few designers who work with the gorgeous gemstone: Jean-Francois Albert (JFA), Oscar Heyman, Marco Bicego, Eli Jewels, McCaskill & Company Signature Collection, Benchmark, Anna Beck, and so many more.
Sapphires are most known for being blue, but they can be colorless and found in many colors which include gray and black. The range of sapphire colors: yellow and green, pink, orange and brown, pinkish orange (padparadscha), colorless, and color changing. Padparadscha sapphires are the rarest sapphires and are originally found in Sri Lanka, Vietnam and East Africa. Color change sapphires are known for being one color in outdoor light and another in incandescent indoor light. You can also find a Star Sapphire which manifests a star-like phenomenon with intersecting needle-like inclusions and cause the appearance of a six-rayed star.
Padparascha Sapphire McCaskill Signature Collection
Logan Sapphire Brooch
Star of India
Sapphires have been used for many things over the years, some of the most beautiful have been made in to stunning jewelry pieces that are showcased for everyone to enjoy.
The 423-carat (84.6 g) 'Logan Sapphire' is one of the largest facets gem-quality blue sapphires in existence and is at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. This cushion-cut stone is one of the world's most famous sapphires and is about the size of an egg. The 'Logan Sapphire' is set in a brooch surrounded by 20 round brilliant cut diamonds (16 carts total).
It is showcased next to the 'Bismarck Sapphire Necklace' which holds a 98.6 carat table-cut sapphire and the 'Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace' where its 36 cushion-cut sapphires total in 195 carats.
The 733 carat largest gem-quality black star sapphire in the world, 'Black Star of Queensland' was found in Australia in 1930s. Then the 'Star of India' which is 563.4 carats blue star sapphire is on display in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. The 'Star of India' is unusual in the fact that it has stars on both sides of the gem.
