I really envy people who are born in September – what a wonderful birthstone!
Generally books refer to the blue variety of sapphire when it comes to the September birthstone but I am sure one can safely include all other colours. Who would want to leave out the deep pink shades of Malawi or Tanzanian sapphires, or the striking deep yellow of Sri Lankan  specimens. Only the deep red colour of the corundum family was classified as ruby, otherwise the full colour range is named sapphire.

Sapphire has always been associated with divine energy, knowledge and clarity. In ancient times they used to ground sapphires to a powder, used for curing colic, rheumatism and mental illness, and to strengthen eyesight.

A rather expensive cure these days and I think it is a much better idea to use sapphires in jewellery.

And this is exactly what we do, please have a look @ our online shop for sapphire rings and loose sapphires.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 6:38 am and is filed under birthstones.