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Many of alexandrite were sold to tourists in Egypt, Alexandria (alexandrite is not mined in Alexandria), after the Second World War. We receive many inquiries about these old and now inherited alexandrites bought by an aunt or a grandmother in Egypt or someplace else and almost all of them are synthetic alexandrite like corundum. And 80 years ago there were no natural alexandrites coming from Russia ( USSR at the time), although some un mounted stones or jewels were still available from the Russian emigre and they were not cheap.
Anyway, before appraising your alexandrites, you need to make sure if they are natural gemstones. I recommend you to contact your local gemological lab and ask them for the identification report. It will cost 100-200 USD, but it will confirm if you have natural alexandrites and it will also state weight, clarity and colour of the stones. Then you can post this information, for example on this forum, and will get pretty accurate estimate what they worth.
Finally, I will not recommend posting photos, because it's almost impossible to estimate value of the gemstone only from the picture. Besides, I doubt that you can make professional picture, since alexandrite is the hardest stone to photograph.
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