This is a nice maroon colored emerald cut with fine crystal and an eye clean look. It is rather an unusual color in the collection, but this one shines for the quest of different colors. It weighs 2.14 carats.
With all the rough I have bought to enlarge the spread of color you would have thought I would have more maroon. Now maroon has a part of me since it was part of my high school colors. Maroon and white Fight Fight! Fight! and all those cheerleaders jumping around. If someone would advertise a maroon piece of tourmaline faceting rough I would probably be in line, if it had any chance of making a stone.
Having said all that I have less than a handful of really maroon colored tourmaline. This posted stone is one of the best. Its c axis is dripping in rich maroon and the a/b doesn’t fight it with a brownish cast. This lets the emerald cut be maroon without getting sort of wood-like appearance, as some of my other maroon do. There is some slight grading of the color in the long axis of the stone and I see a slight amount of chipping on the keel, but the body is of fine crystal and eye clean. It weighs 2.14 carats.
Bruce
