Orange Sapphire

I won this gorgeous gemstone along with my other gem listings 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 on a Precidium II. All of the ones that I had tested turned out to match their identification. I am posting all of my gems at less than wholesale prices. After paying to get them tested, I was told that in order to sell them I should pay to have them graded and THEN pay to get them appraised. I started to realize that I will never get around to selling them because I have a career that I love and don’t have the time (or the money!) for all of that. I've had them stored in a locked closet for over ten YEARS at this point so I thought that I would just sell them here for about what it costs to get tested by a professional, 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. This gem is testing at about 9 MOHs which perfect *sapphire* range. Orange sapphires are valuable and considered rare, often used in high-end jewelry. The most valuable stones have a pure, saturated orange color.