This green with a little shifting to the blue emerald cut has closed ends, but is cut with normal angels. It appears to be eye clean and has a good solid tourmaline green. It weighs 1.51 carats.
There is some blue shifting in this modest green emerald cut. It has closed ends, but is cut with normal angles. I personally like the improved flash with normal angles even if the darkness encroaches a bit more from the closed ends. It appears to be eye clean and has good crystal. It weighs 1.51 carats. As a foot note, regular angles on the ends, of closed ended tourmaline, makes them easier to set.
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 green with a little shifting to the blue emerald cut has closed ends, but is cut with normal angels. It appears to be eye clean and has a good solid tourmaline green. It weighs 1.51 carats.
