This standard round brilliant shifts color between orange and pink. It medium tone level and clean spirit is all wrapped up in a gemstone that weighs 1.10 carats.
The lighting is not the best as it is morning with a gray sky and only one yellowish squiggly florescent light shinning on my shoulder. This droplet jumps into my hand and I see a middle of the road pink. Then I look at the wisdom on the back of her box and it says orange. So another shifty tourmaline has try to put one over on me. I am beginning to loose my confidence. Well anyway, I am glad that the droplets have a new member that I did not remember, to shift them into a higher gear. She is eye clean and weighs 1.10 carats. She is also quite flashy dressed in a standard round brilliant cut.
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 shifts color between orange and pink. It medium tone level and clean spirit is all wrapped up in a gemstone that weighs 1.10 carats.
