Since sapphire creates a delightfully contrasting combination with diamonds, we bring you charming diamond jewelry like diamond bracelets, necklaces, rings, and earrings in this brilliant September birthstone. We infuse these attributes of the sapphire in our extraordinary collection of September birthstone jewelry. As the September birthstone, it represents the soul, fidelity in love, royalty, truth, peace, and sincerity. The significance of the sapphire transcends history and spirituality.
The gem is also considered to elevate the spiritual powers of the wearer. Medieval Europeans thought that it could cure certain ailments and even cut through the effects of poison. Sapphire was also regarded as an excellent healing crystal. Therefore, the gem symbolized heaven in the Middle Ages. Ancient Persians thought that the sky derived its blue color from an enormous sapphire on which the earth rested. According to the elite of Ancient Rome and Greece, a blue sapphire guarded its wearer against envy and danger.
Royal jewelry and the robes of the clergy used to be embellished with the gemstone, sapphire, in earlier times. Sapphire, the popular blue gemstone, derives its name from the Greek and Latin words, "sappheiros" and "sapphirus," meaning “blue.” But this gemstone comes in various other colors too, like pink and white. They later divorced and Polly took the last name of her second husband, the name later given to the stone upon its donation to the Institution.Look Charming in Our September Birthstone Sapphire Jewelry This stone was gifted by an Indian maharaja to Guggenheim, who gifted it to his wife Polly. It was donated by Polly Logan, former wife of Robert Guggenheim, to the Smithsonian Institution in 1960. This sapphire, being roughly the size of an egg, is set in a brooch surrounded by round brilliant cut diamonds and is now displayed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. It took this title from the Logan Sapphire, which is now the second largest blue sapphire known. Weighing an astonishing 1,404 carats, around 280g, and being valued between 100 and 300 million dollars, this stone earned the title of world’s largest sapphire. This gemstone was discovered in Ratnapura, known as the ‘City of Gems’, in southern Sri Lanka in 2015. The world’s biggest sapphire is in fact a ‘star sapphire’, named ‘The Star of Adam’ after a Muslim belief that Adam arrived in Sri Lanka after being sent away from the Garden of Eden.
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