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every year. Moreover, it is the only stone which offers an entirely<br />
different color by day and by night.<br />
Its price varies from $40 to $100 per karat, according to its<br />
perfection, and one might say, according to the need and knowledge<br />
of the one who wants to buy or sell.<br />
Alexandrite is owned almost exclusively by collectors. The<br />
public, in this part of the world at least, knows it little and values it<br />
less. Considering the lack of pleasure it gives the eye, its price<br />
seems out of all proportion to its charm. When it opaque, suggests<br />
the bloodstone, and even then is not inexpensive. Often it cannot<br />
be bought at all, unless a collector parts with one.<br />
Those who live with the alexandrite say it grows on you; its<br />
very strangeness becomes in the end a potent attraction but though<br />
valued greatly in Russia and Ceylon, it is not in this country a<br />
favorite with the jewelers, who pronounce it "a slow seller."
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