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Favorite gemstone?

What is your favorite gemstone, and why?

Imagine diamonds did not exist... what would you chose as your engagement ring's stone? What kind of design -contemporary, antique...-? Thank you!

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  • lb2k
    Lv 4
    2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    Chrome Red Spinel in its unpolished form - an octahedral crystal habit - set in an antique design.

  • themom
    Lv 6
    2 decades ago

    I love sapphire! I would love to have a dark, dark stone with plenty of gold band maybe in the shape of a flower, or something unusual like that. My oldest brother designed his second wife's engagement ring himself. She LOVES daisies, and so he designed a ring that had gold petals and a black onyx as the center stone. It was off the chain!!! So I have never much been a stickler for the traditional diamond, anyway.

  • 2 decades ago

    1- Blue Topaz: cools tempers

    2- Blue Sapphire: truth, sincerity, constancy

    3- Opal: hope, purity

    4- Emerald: faithfulness, unchanging love

    Any (or all) of these stones would love great in an antiqued setting of 14k gold or platinum.

    My fav.. as the saying goes "Diamonds are a girls best friend"

    5- Diamond: fearlessness, invincibility

  • 2 decades ago

    I would choose an antique style ring with a fire opal in it. The man I marry has to ignite my passions with a fire that will not die, represented by the Opal. Perhaps set with smaller stones of my birthstone amethyst, both for the symbolism and because it's pretty. :)

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  • 2 decades ago

    A brilliant ruby, Princess cut.

  • 2 decades ago

    Diamond and Mystic Fire Topaz....Both stones are absolutely gorgeous, no matter how they're cut....

  • 2 decades ago

    Ruby.. i love its deep red color and i'll put it on classic setting cos it will sit on my finger forever.

  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    Jade. classic elegant style.

  • 2 decades ago

    topaz

  • tara t
    Lv 5
    2 decades ago

    AMETHEST..PURPLE AND PRETTY

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