This standard round brilliant just does not have the visual impact that a pink of similar tone level would have. I think that a purple punch makes the stone less transparent. It is still a nice modest droplet of 1.15 carats.
I have this standard round brilliant marked as a pink, but something is both making it darker and toning down the flash. I think that it is a punch of purple that I have seen often in pink tourmaline. This round still has a pleasant restrained look that is eye clean, but without as much sparkle as I would expect in a 1.15 carat oval of medium dark tone level. The droplets are still interested in her because she is a bit different.
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 just does not have the visual impact that a pink of similar tone level would have. I think that a purple punch makes the stone less transparent. It is still a nice modest droplet of 1.15 carats.
