This medium tone level, blue green standard round brilliant is a great little stone. It has everything in fine shape and weighs .65 carats. Acceptance into the droplets of color is assured.
How can I, a cutter that has scaled such tourmaline pinnacles, call a smaller standard round brilliant with a reasonably common color and tone level great, because it is. Size does matter with tourmaline, though certainly not as much as with corundum.(ruby and sapphire) , but hues like this round has, can only be dreamed of in larger gemstones in my collection. If I was ever to design a color wheel from tourmaline in the collection, I would use droplets of color with only one or two additions to get it as broad based as possible. The posted beauty has all the great properties that set a fine color off. It weighs .65 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 medium tone level, blue green standard round brilliant is a great little stone. It has everything in fine shape and weighs .65 carats. Acceptance into the droplets of color is assured.
