I won this gorgeous gemstone along with many others in one of those storage locker auctions! I am not a gemstone expert so I took them to a pawn shop and paid to have about 100 of them tested, it was really expensive! The ones I tested turned out to match their certificates. Almost ALL of the Rubies I list have been tested on a Precidium II I am posting all of my gems at less than wholesale prices. After paying to get them tested I was told that I should have them graded and THEN get them appraised and THEN I would have to find a buyer to pay a ton for them. It all seems so exhausting . . . not to mention expensive! I realized that I will never get around to selling them because of all the steps. They've been in a locked closet for over ten YEARS. So I thought that I would just sell them for about what it costs to get tested by a professional and taking into consideration the size and cut of each gem. I don't have an expensive gem tester at home BUT my diamond tester can show the hardness of a stone (the MOHs scale) and can also tell if a stone is glass or CZ. I am showing that this gem has * Peridot * hardness to it on my tester which is around 7 mohs In the Right hands Peridot becomes something out of this world Extraordinary! When cut well, the crystal reflects in onto itself with this gorgeous teal color effect! This beauty has to have been cut by a real professional gem cutter, having a stone cut like this can cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars!