The cutter

Alana Marcus

Alana has spent years learning what an Australian sapphire will give you if you read it properly. She cuts every stone sold here herself, in the workshop on our Inverell, NSW property, a short walk from the wash it came out of.

Alana Marcus at her bench and a sapphire on the cutting wheel

From our own ground in Inverell

Everything begins on the property at Inverell, in the New England sapphire fields of New South Wales, Australia. The rough is dug, washed and hand sorted on site. No parcels are bought in and nothing is sourced through a dealer, so we can tell you exactly where any stone came from.

Australian sapphires run deep blue through teal, green, gold and parti colour, and the best of them only reveal themselves once a window is cut.

Cut on site

Each stone is studied before the wheel touches it. Alana orients the rough to the colour rather than to the largest possible weight, which sometimes means a smaller finished stone with far more life in it.

Every finished gemstone is photographed as it is, without treatment or retouching, and leaves with its own certificate of authenticity.

What is on the certificate
A blue Australian sapphire held in tweezers

Australian sapphires, one stone at a time

Where we are

Inverell, New South Wales

Every stone is mined, washed and cut on our property in the New England sapphire fields of Inverell, NSW — one place, from the ground to the wheel.

New England sapphire fields, New South Wales, Australia.

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