Let me tell you I want this stone!   So bad!!!

I have no idea why but probably because it is so darn unique.  It looks like a round meets a cushion and gets the best of both worlds.  No overly obvious arrows, but a lovely roundish squarish thing. 

That was a technical term

The itty bitty culet is a clincher for me.  It really is perfection.

The color (or lack of face up) is lovely too!

I say leave it!  I think my most sparkly diamonds are round radiant cuts yet my favorite shape is square... so I can't imagine a more perfect cut!   Also when you mount that stone with yellow gold it will be golden and perfect and it will sparkle so much the person wearing it won't care it's not a x y z or FY~


Just my two cents


now how can we get more stones cut like that .... that don't cost 23 grand..........

LOVE IT...just the way it is! 

Oh if I didn't make it clear I would not recut the stone

I actually would love to see it in a super simple and elegant setting that just showcases this beauty!  Maybe something with a fancy basket but from the top all you see is this stunning stone.

Size 6.75, please. 

Dovesgate I own two transitionals and neither are anything but round.  It's hard to flat out define a transitional but the only thing I've seen them all have in common is the round shape and not the cushion shape.

One of my transitionals has a small culet while the other has very small.  In general transitionals were when they were going from the round older cuts to the modern ones - the move from from taller crowns and small tables to what we see as the modern round (lower crown, more medium sized table, shorter pavilion and smaller culet)

one of the neat things about one of my transitionals is the lack of polished or faceted girdle.  I honestly cannot tell what my other one has due to the setting.  Though I admit I haven't really looked.

I wouldn't guess this to be a transitional at all, but I could be wrong.

This stone is haunting me and I know I shouldn't have it.  I keep wondering if the uber factory could create a solitaire that has the lovely braid at the bottom like R3882 yet is still a solitaire.  A yellow undercarriage like that would probably help the diamond look more yellow.  Or maybe a "tulip" setting where you have a lot of yellow gold holding it into place.  Somehow that's what I see in this stone... but that's probably what I would love

I agree with Squig- the way I see it, this stone is all modern. Generally speaking, traditional stones seem to have larger facets.
In fact, it looks almost exactly like a modern round brilliant in it's faceting.


I like this photo...

Make that:

 

I am smitten too with this stone!!!!  I love that photo and it really does look quite yellow in that photo  

In short a transitional diamond is a type of round scut.  They aren't quite the same looking as a modern round brilliant but they aren't quite the Old European Cuts either.  I am over simplifying a little but they are just the diamonds that came during the period of history where cutting styles of rounds changed.  They were cut somewhere around 1918-1930 or so.  One of mine was from 1925 and the other is thought to be from 1930 give or take a couple years.  The latter of the two for me really has more in common with modern rounds but still has signs of the transitional period (very small culet and unpolished or non-faceted girdle).

A lot of times it is hard to know how to classify these diamonds.  Unless you know the exact history of the diamond. My 1925 I know the history of, but the 1930 was more vague since it came from an estate sale.  They had rough dates on it though that pinpointed the timeline to me.

D---that is one gorgeous stone!!!  I love everything about it  It's really fabulous!

The color is lovely---my S-T emerald cut can be such a chameleon, lemony yellow is some lighting, almost white in other---either way makes me happy.

Can't wait to see what you do with this beauty