{"id":357388,"date":"2019-06-05T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/?p=357388"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T10:23:42","slug":"something-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/something-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Blue: From Sapphire to Turquoise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There’s something about the colour blue. It is gloriously evocative at all ends of the spectrum. Deep, velvety blues carry undertones of aristocracy and sovereignty, romance and eternity. Clear, pale blues are clean, pure and ethereal. All are eye-catching and universally flattering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To make your hunt for the most vibrant and exciting shades of blue easier, we bring you our guide to the finest blue materials that antique and vintage jewellery have to offer: <\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ll start with the bluest of the blue. Brilliant, luxurious and intense at the finer end of the scale, sapphires are amongst the world’s most desirable gemstones. They are also durable – measuring an impressive 9 on the Mohs scale – which means sapphires are long lasting and a really good investment. (Read more about antique sapphires here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nSapphire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n