This standard round brilliant is eye clean and bright, but with a pastel yellow that is rather standoffish. The gray touch makes her different and a welcome addition to the collection. She weighs 2.67 carats.
Now I don’t know if it is really possible to be yellow and a cold color at the same time, but that is how she leaves me. I think I spotted her weakness, she has a gray side. This is probably enhanced by having an eight sided split horizontal main pavilion that make a deep and more profound stone. She appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal, but is a gemstone that keeps her distance. She weighs in at 2.90 carats.
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 is eye clean and bright, but with a pastel yellow that is rather standoffish. The gray touch makes her different and a welcome addition to the collection. She weighs 2.67 carats.
