September Birthstone - Sapphire

Sapphires come in many colours and some of you might find some of them surprising; violet, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple and of course the most popular and most seen is the blue colour. It is ranked as one of the most valuable stones available to buy.

Sapphire Wave Ring
Sapphire is the birthstone of September and it can come with superstitions. One tale says that the wearer should spend a few nights with the sapphire under their pillow to test the stone. If you don't, you risk the blue stone immediately casting darkness and chaos over you, but for others it will bring great fortune, health and a lifetime of prosperity. Will you be safe and test your sapphire under your pillow first? 

It is also said that the sapphire is the stone of mental focus, order, inner vision and psychic awareness. The sapphire is also said to help open the third eye to receive wisdom and insight, as well as being the throat chakra, which allows you to communicate that vision to others. 

Its nice to think about the journey of stones and how they have been viewed through time. There are very famous and prominent sapphires, how many of these have you heard of already?

1. Napoleon’s Engagement Ring for Joséphine

Unfortunately this ring did not bring a prosperous marriage. Napoleon went to conquer Milan and in his absence Joséphine had an affair, perhaps the superstition of chaos and darkness had a hand in it, she should have put it under her pillow first right!?


Napoleons ring to Josephine

 

2. Kate Middleton's Engagement Ring

Originally bestowed to Princess Diana, Prince William's mother, given by his father Prince Charles of Wales. Now it lives on Kate Middleton's finger, and wow does it look beautiful. 9 years of marriage, 3 children, and so far a fairly successful image in the public eye, perhaps they have been bestowed the prosperity of the sapphire? 


Diana Princess of Wales and Kate Middleton

 

3. The Blue Belle of Asia

The most expensive sapphire bought at a public auction. Selling $17 million at a Christies' auction in 2014. It is a whopping 392.52-carat untreated cushion-cut sapphire from Sri Lanka. 

Bluebell Sapphire

4. Star of Adam

The world's largest blue sapphire was discovered in Sri Lanka's Ratnapura mines. Unveiled in 2016 and weighing an astonishing 1404.49 carats, equivalent to about 280g (just under 10 ounces), that's about a quarter of a bag of sugar! 

Adams Star Sapphire
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Do you love a sapphire? I must admit I am biased, its my birthstone and coincidentally my engagement ring. Outside of that it is a popular choice because of the vibrant colours you can find sapphires in. It is also a very durable stone making it an the ideal jewellery choice to wear everyday. I think the more traditional blue colour compliments lots of other jewellery and clothing making it easy to wear all the time. 
Being my favourite stone of course I have incorporated some sapphires in Memor's Jewellery collections, take a look!  

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