Preview build. The four stones shown are samples for layout: their certificates, prices and report numbers are placeholders, not offers. Nothing here is for sale yet.

The journal

Plain guides, written in Colombo, from first hand.

Not a blog. A small number of guides written from inside the trade, with original photography and real price tables — published as they are finished.

In preparation

  1. The Ceylon Sapphire: A Collector’s Guide

    The pillar piece — colour, origin, treatment and price, from inside Sri Lanka.

  2. Heated vs Unheated: How to Read the Certificate

    What “no indication of heating” actually means, and what it is worth.

  3. What Unheated Ceylon Sapphires Actually Cost

    Honest price ranges by colour, size and treatment.

  4. Kashmir, Burma, Ceylon: The Origin Premium Explained

    Why origin moves price, and where the premium is real.

  5. Padparadscha: Sri Lanka’s Lotus Sapphire

    The pink-orange boundary, handled honestly.

  6. Buying Gems Directly from Sri Lanka

    The protocol, the paperwork, and what to refuse.

The first two publish with the site. Nothing is listed here that is not being written.