Lot 691
Aesthetic Ruby Crystal. Mogok, Burma, Southern Asia.
This piece is a delightfully terraced ruby cluster whose artistic stair-step effect pleasingly coalesces with strong red color and some minor white calcite accents.
Ruby from Burma is distinguished and known by all for its fiery red color and famous for its exceptional coloring. The color of ruby ranges from bright red to dark reddish-brown. The most preferred color is a deep blood red with a slightly bluish hue. Such ruby is known as "Burmese Ruby" or "Pigeon's Blood Ruby."
The valley of Mogok, located some 200 kilometers northeast of the city of Mandalay in Burma (now known as Myanmar), has been yielding the world's most beautiful ruby gems and crystals for more than a thousand years.
Weighs 467 ct.
Measures 4 x 4.5 x 3 cm.
This piece is attached (readily detachable) to an acrylic display base.
Estimated Value $7,000 - 8,000.
A Bill Larson, Pala International mineral.
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