a .43 carat green standard round brilliant that is a droplet of color. A personal stone that likes close examination.
I love to find a bit of green that had a nice open green color in the c axis direction because it gives you more latitude to make a beautiful stone. This bit of green was too small and squat to make anything, but a spicy droplet of color. It joins a select group with a .43 carat weight.
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.
a .43 carat green standard round brilliant that is a droplet of color. A personal stone that likes close examination.
