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Buying & Collecting Antique Sapphire Jewelry

Antique sapphire jewelry comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Despite popular belief, sapphires come in many colors besides blue. Antique sapphire jewelry was often ornate and complicated in design, not at all like today's sleek, simplistic designs. Often an antique sapphire jewelry collection begins with a piece of jewelry given as a gift or handed down as a family heirloom. Sapphires come in many colors besides blue, which is a little known fact to many people. Besides varying colors of blue, they also come in green, pink, orange, yellow, brown, black, mauve, and other colors. How is this possible? Sapphires are created in multiple colors when metallic alloys interact with the parent material, creating brilliant colors besides the signature blue color that many of us tend to associate with the term 'sapphire.' Only recently have jewelry buyers began to realise that sapphires truly represent every color of the rainbow and can offer many advantages over traditional

Sapphire Jewelry History

Sapphire jewelry is worn by many people as in ancient times it was believed that the gem of sapphire protects from evil and negative spirits and thoughts; they also use to wear it during traveling believing it will defend against illness of any kind. Sapphire jewelry, especially rings has now become the most famous gem to be given as a wedding ring after Prince Charles gave Princess Diana a sapphire wedding ring. The gem of sapphire is now being considered to be given as a wedding ring due to its variety of colors and other positive beliefs like faithfulness and sincerity this gem is considered to symbolize. Sapphire jewelry is a great option that can be worn on different occasions and events due to the various colors sapphire is found in. The most valuable and expensive sapphires are the color of royal blue whose deposits can be found at Yogo Gulch. Other different colors of sapphires can be found in Thailand, Sri Lanka, Australia, Cambodia, Ceylon, Brazil, India, Africa,