This oval has two rows of steps on its crown. It is a pink peach slider with darker overtones. It is eye clean and with fine crystal and weighs 1.56 carats.
Even before I set up my yellowish light and let the natural light into where I am posting, pinks, peaches, reds and oranges have been betraying me. I examine them after they have been cleaned and placed in their storage box. I even walk them, as I have posted about, to try and understand their color personality, but then later they don’t match up with my declaration about their color.
I am getting a bit cautious about my declarations and even though the storage box says pink on this one, I know that this medium toned pink peach is a slider that is ready to try and do me in. It does have a darker overtone, but good flash for an oval with a stepped cut crown. It appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal. It weighs 1.56 carats and is interesting.
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 oval has two rows of steps on its crown. It is a pink peach slider with darker overtones. It is eye clean and with fine crystal and weighs 1.56 carats.
