Appraising a Color Zoned Emerald

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Greetings all (my first post…) : ))
Just received this stone from a client to appraise. A couple of questions to you gurus: having never encountered an emerald with this degree of color zoning, I’m not sure if technically this is goshenite or emerald. Face up it is a nice, saturated med lt bG, but viewed at any other angle, has a personality disorder! I would say that the degree of zoning is about 1/4 but is the face up appearance what counts toward arriving at a valuation (goshenite vs emerald)? If emerald, what deduction should be applied in your collective opinions? Weight is 0.66 ct.

Thanks very much

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My gut says you have a assembled stone do a immersion test and see.

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Thank you for your response, 707chrisa

You can bet that your hunch was mine too. The first thing I did was get out the immersion cell and take a look; an aha moment with an assembled stone would have made life so much easier, but no. It was color zoning…

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Sorry did not mean to doubt you, this is an Interesting stone would have liked to have see the rough. The cutter did his job and maxed the yield :smiley: