Beschreibung:

Sri Lanka Taaffeite was named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe (1898–1967) who found the first sample, a cut and polished gem, in 1945 in a jeweler's shop in Dublin, Ireland. As such, it is the only gemstone to have been initially identified from a faceted stone. Most pieces of the gem, prior to Taaffe, had been misidentified as spinel. For many years afterwards, it was known only in a few samples, and is still one of the rarest gemstone minerals in the world. Faceted as an oval-cut of exceptional cut with pleasing proportions, the present very rare offering of a collector's gemstone displays a rich plum hue which is well-saturated, but shows no black patches or extinction of color. Weighing approximately 1.36 carats and measuring 7.89 x 5.89 x 3.67mm