This oval is bright and flashy and made of 24 karat, pure golden glory. The glorious color has a fine setting of crystal and an eye clean body. It weighs 1.34 carats.
This stone will not brook with anything to do with color shifting or changing. It has a pure 24 karat, golden heart. It also appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. Since it does not have even a drop of brown in it nature I would not call it a dravite, though the trade does not have a varietal name for golden yellows without brown. This may have change recently with the advent of “canary” tourmaline from East Africa that is promoted as a pure yellow with minimal overtones of brown and green. This beautiful tourmaline weighs 1.34 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 oval is bright and flashy and made of 24 karat, pure golden glory. The glorious color has a fine setting of crystal and an eye clean body. It weighs 1.34 carats.
