Description
London blue checkerboard cut earrings; they care called checkerboard because it looks like a checkerboard. The facets are square in shape and often mistaken for a Rose cut. Usually, translucent stones are cut in this way. A checkerboard cut adds character to the distinctive design.
Highly-regarded London blue topaz is a variety of Topaz with a medium to dark blue colour, often with a greenish tone but not always. As in all gems, the colour can vary greatly. Topaz is one of the world’s favourite coloured gemstones; it is “mineral number 8” in the Mohs Scale of Hardness; and the birthstone for November.
Topaz actually has an extensive colour range, besides brown, includes various tones and saturations of blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, and purple. Colourless Topaz is plentiful and is often treated to give it a blue colour. Topaz is also ‘pleochroic’, meaning that the gem can show different colours in different crystal directions.
Not only does the Topaz have a distinctive style, but the sensual smooth design of the earrings is also unique. Both the creation and the gems are incredible individual.
The silver has a whiteness about it which is in contract with the colour of the Topaz. Silver supposedly being the colour of the moon which also has a blue tinge, hence the title ‘blue moon’. Actually, this does not refer to the colour of the moon at all. I will leave the research regarding the ‘blue moon up to you.
London blue checkerboard cut earrings are unique and are a One-Off due to the availability of the gemstone; however, the design can be repeated.
A checkerboard cut adds character to the distinctive design.
The concave shape of the earrings makes them easy to wear despite their size, they are bold and beautiful.