This standard round brilliant keeps the tradition of great Namibian blues alive. It has a nice medium plus tone level and a well saturated blue color. It weighs .56 carats.
I think that doing all the posts for my new web site has caused me to reflect on some of my purchases. I seem to have a selective memory or lack of it, when it comes to how many small blue rounds I have cut from beautiful Namibian blue. Still I get a nice trill out of everyone I rediscover and this .56 carats beauty is one of the best. Its tone level is medium plus and is bluer than most of the other smaller rounds I have rediscovered. So all I can say is thanks for being there for me and I will try and keep the memory of you as a droplet of color.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
This standard round brilliant keeps the tradition of great Namibian blues alive. It has a nice medium plus tone level and a well saturated blue color. It weighs .56 carats.
