Multi Color Beaded Sapphire Necklace

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This is part of Chairish’s Fine Jewelry assortment.

Bright and fun smooth ovals of graduated Sapphires are just perfect for … Read more This is part of Chairish’s Fine Jewelry assortment.

Bright and fun smooth ovals of graduated Sapphires are just perfect for that finishing touch. This Sapphire necklace is a lovely way to enhance every ensemble. It is 19 inches of gemstones in green, blue, yellow, and pink/red. They graduate from 8 x 6 MM to 12 x 10 MM. The multi color rope extender gives you another 12 inches to slides this perfect necklace over your head. Besides being known as September’s birthstone, a Sapphire ring was the choice of Princess Diana for her engagement ring. It is now worn by her daughter-in-law Catherine, Princess of Wales. Although Sapphires come in a rainbow of colors, it is most well known as a rich blue stone. It has been used in the jewelry and adornment of royals for centuries. Sapphire has often been associated with romance. In the Middle Ages, clergy considered it a reminder of heaven.
Sapphires are in the same group of stones known as corundum. Nearly all corundum is known as sapphire, except the red stones, known as Ruby, and an orangey-pink stone known as padparadscha. The padparadscha sapphire is found specifically in Sri Lanka.
Sapphires are made from aluminum and oxygen. The presence of trace amounts of iron is what gives sapphires their blue color. Other trace elements that are present when sapphires are formed give stones their great variety of colors. These stones are called fancy sapphires. In the 1990’s, deposits of fancy sapphires were found in East Africa, as well as Madagascar, and has been the source of creative, multicolored stone jewelry. Sapphires can be colorless, and these types of stones are often used as alternatives to diamonds. See less