{"title":"Rarities","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stones outside the usual six. Rarer species, smaller parcels, and names most buyers meet only once — sphene with more fire than diamond, heliodor, diaspore, chrysoberyl. Each one certified and documented like everything else here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"santa-maria-aquamarine","title":"Santa Maria Aquamarine · 4.43 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanta Maria is not where this stone came from. It is a depth of blue, named for a Brazilian mine and long since adopted as the standard the whole species is measured against. 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Faceted to move the colour through the stone rather than letting it pool in one place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53682853085491,"sku":"UN-0149","price":310.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0149_1.jpg?v=1784503284"},{"product_id":"golden-heliodor-1","title":"Golden Heliodor · 5.53 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeliodor takes its name from the Greek for gift of the sun, and the gold in it comes from iron sitting in the channels of the crystal. Brazilian, and cut so the yellow keeps moving as the stone turns rather than lying flat on the table.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53692376613171,"sku":"UN-0197","price":380.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0197_1.jpg?v=1784672706"},{"product_id":"radiant-cut-diamond","title":"Fancy Radiant-Cut Diamond · 0.80 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe radiant was designed in the 1970s to solve one problem: a rectangular diamond cut in steps shows colour and clarity beautifully and returns almost no light. Putting brilliant faceting inside a step-cut outline fixed it — an elongated rectangle with clipped corners that behaves like a round.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801055355187,"sku":"UN-0219","price":770.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0219_1.jpg?v=1785966726"},{"product_id":"marquise-portrait-cut-diamond","title":"Marquise Portrait Fancy Cut Diamond · 1.02 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eA portrait cut is faceted only around its rim, leaving the table as a flat clear window. The technique is antique, and the name comes from the practice of laying such a stone over a painted miniature so the picture could be read through it. Strong blue fluorescence gives this one a soft cast in daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801070002483,"sku":"UN-0220","price":1150.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0220_1.jpg?v=1785966853"},{"product_id":"neon-blue-zircon","title":"Neon Blue Zircon · 1.72 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlue zircon is almost always faceted, because the species disperses light hard enough to make that worthwhile. Left as a low dome instead, it gives up the fire and gets body in return — the neon reads from the top rather than flashing off the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53822092181811,"sku":"UN-0264","price":50.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0264_1.jpg?v=1786150932"},{"product_id":"brown-orange-zircon","title":"Brown-Orange Zircon · 3.69 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eZircon is strongly doubly refractive: look through the table with a loupe and the back facets appear twice, which is how it is told apart from everything it resembles. Sri Lankan, and the colour shifts between brown-orange and orange- brown depending where the light falls on it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53822093361459,"sku":"UN-0271","price":290.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0271_1.jpg?v=1786150975"},{"product_id":"sunstone-un-0263","title":"Sunstone · 3.41 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eOregon sunstone takes its colour and its shimmer from microscopic copper platelets suspended in feldspar — the only place in the world where copper does this in a gem. Cut freeform, following where the copper lies rather than imposing a shape on it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53822093623603,"sku":"UN-0263","price":125.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0263_1.jpg?v=1786150983"},{"product_id":"teal-zircon-un-0319","title":"Teal Zircon · 5.87 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eZircon is the oldest mineral anyone has dated — grains of it in Western Australia read at four and a half billion years, older than the oceans. This one is Cambodian and saturated teal, and zircon disperses light harder than diamond does, so the depth of the cut throws orange and gold across that cool body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53847047536947,"sku":"UN-0319","price":420.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0319_1.jpg?v=1786534211"},{"product_id":"afghan-pink-kunzite-un-0320","title":"Afghan Pink Kunzite · 48.62 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eKunzite was named for George Kunz, the gemmologist Tiffany kept on staff, who identified it in 1902 — one of the few gems named after a person rather than a place. It is strongly pleochroic, pink down one axis and nearly colourless down another, so the rough has to be read and oriented before a saw goes near it. This one was cut to be looked into rather than across.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53876692877619,"sku":"UN-0320","price":850.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0320_1.jpg?v=1787172232"},{"product_id":"pink-imperial-topaz-un-0323","title":"Pink Imperial Topaz · 4.94 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eKatlang in Pakistan is the one place topaz comes out of the ground pink, and that is where the premium on the name sits. 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Brazilian, and the blue is the deepest grade the species reaches.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53876693532979,"sku":"UN-0324","price":260.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0324_1.jpg?v=1787172209"},{"product_id":"colour-change-alexandrite-un-0330","title":"Colour-Change Alexandrite · 1.63 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe colour change is partly a quirk of our own eyes: alexandrite transmits in exactly the two bands human vision is most sensitive to, so a small change in the light produces a large change in what you see. Greenish yellow by day, reddish brown under a lamp.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53876697268531,"sku":"UN-0330","price":375.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0330_1.jpg?v=1787172218"},{"product_id":"greenish-yellow-chrysoberyl-un-0331","title":"Greenish Yellow Chrysoberyl · 3.02 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eChrysoberyl in this greenish yellow was sold as chrysolite for centuries — a name that also got attached to peridot and half a dozen other yellow-green stones before mineralogy pulled them apart. Tanzanian, and clean enough to show what the species does with a polish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53876697301299,"sku":"UN-0331","price":280.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0331_1.jpg?v=1787172193"},{"product_id":"yellowish-green-diaspore-un-0019","title":"Yellowish-Green Diaspore · 4.10 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiaspore has perfect cleavage in one direction, so it splits cleanly if a cutter reads the crystal wrong. Faceted stones of any size are scarce as a result, and they cost more in labour than the material alone would suggest. 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That matters more here than the colour does: a stone this hard will look the same after thirty years of being worn as it does today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885238640947,"sku":"UN-0007","price":295.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0007_1.jpg?v=1787413438"},{"product_id":"green-sodalite-un-0009","title":"Green Sodalite · 0.46 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eSodalite is a blue mineral. Green is the exception, and green at this intensity is the sort of thing most dealers will go a whole career without handling. Small, and the colour is the entire reason to own it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885238804787,"sku":"UN-0009","price":310.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0009_1.jpg?v=1787413482"},{"product_id":"vivid-blue-sodalite-un-0353","title":"Vivid Blue Sodalite · 1.48 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the mineral behind ultramarine — Afghan material ground for pigment for centuries, and for most of them worth more by weight than gold. It is normally left as a dome, which shows colour and asks nothing else of the stone. 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Clean beryl at this scale is what a wide open table exists for — nothing competing for attention, and the pale blue carried from one end to the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885239198003,"sku":"UN-0354","price":640.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0354_1.jpg?v=1787413533"},{"product_id":"colour-change-alexandrite-un-0355","title":"Colour-Change Alexandrite · 0.68 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexandrite was found in the Urals in the 1830s and named for the tsarevich who became Alexander II. Red and green were the colours of the imperial guard, and that coincidence did more for the stone's reputation than the mineralogy ever did.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885239787827,"sku":"UN-0355","price":130.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0355_1.jpg?v=1787413592"},{"product_id":"fire-agate-un-0033","title":"Fire Agate · 9.33 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fire in fire agate is not colour at all. It is thin-film interference from layers of iron oxide inside the chalcedony, the same physics as oil on water, which is why it moves as you turn it and why no photograph gets it right. 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Every stone therefore ends a different shape, and the shape is evidence of where the fire was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEMTOPYA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885596696883,"sku":"UN-0034","price":210.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/9877\/9187\/files\/UN-0034_1.jpg?v=1787437059"},{"product_id":"fire-agate-un-0035","title":"Fire Agate · 10.34 ct","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreen in one place and orange in another across the same dome, which means the interference layers sit at slightly different depths as they run. 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