July Birth Stone: Ruby

Red butterfly gift earrings sitting on a chocolate soldier plant.

July Birth Stone: Ruby

If you are a July baby, then red rubies are your birth stone, inspiration for personalized gifts for your birthday.

Rubies in good quality are hard, and expensive, to find. Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum, one of the hardest minerals on Earth. Rubies are cousins to sapphires. Pure corundum is colorless. Slight traces of elements such as chrome, iron, titanium or vanadium are responsible for the color. Only red corundum is entitled to be called ruby, all other colors being classified as sapphires.

Since they are so hard to find, a piece of jewelry in red like our vintage strawberry pin meets the spirit of the red birth stone without making a dent in your budget.

Charlotte