Also called pigeon s blood red.
Pigeon blood red ruby burma.
This is because a majority of pigeon blood ruby stones come from the mines of burma now myanmar and are addressed as burmese pigeon blood red ruby.
Very rare combination of size colour variety fine brilliancy and absence of heat enhancement.
The term is said to have originated from burma where locals call the finest and most vivid rubies ko twe meaning pigeon s blood other sources claim that the perfect ruby is also the color.
What is a pigeon s blood ruby.
Red to slightly purplish red in medium dark tone with vivid saturation.
For this reason people mistakenly address pigeon blood ruby as old burma ruby or vice versa.
The color of a ruby is due to the element chromium.
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Lighter in tone often more brilliant than myanmar or thai rubies.
People often confuse blood red ruby stone with burmese ruby also known as burma or myanmar ruby.
Ceylon or sri lanka.
The ruby is of burmese origin no indication of thermal enhancement and that the colour is vivid red grs type pigeon s blood with the additional rarity comment.
King ruby pigeon s blood burma 17 95 carats vivid red clean.
It is said that a perfect ruby is the same color as the first two drops of blood from the nose of a killed pigeon.
The word ruby comes from ruber latin for red.