This heavily included standard round brilliant was cut from Brazilian material that I bought when I first got back into faceting. It is here mainly for the memories. It weighs .79 carats and is a peach pink droplet of color.
This round was not permitted into the collection for many years because of its heavy inclusions. I had purchased the rough from Brazil when I started cutting again and loved the color, but couldn’t really cut a clean stone. The standard round brilliant was the best I could do with the pinks, (the lot also had minty green and a fine pale yellow without green) and now I keep the round in the collection for its color and to remember the beginning of my quest for color in tourmaline. It weighs . 79 carats and is one with the droplets of color because they remember too.
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 heavily included standard round brilliant was cut from Brazilian material that I bought when I first got back into faceting. It is here mainly for the memories. It weighs .79 carats and is a peach pink droplet of color.
