Tag Archives: bronze

Golden green, olive medium plus tone level emerald cut.#437

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This closed ended emerald cut has a nice medium plus tone level.  Its color is golden green on the storage box, but I would probably call it an olive green.  It appears to be eye clean and have fine crystal.  … Continue reading →

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Rather dull yellow green closed ended emerald cut.#436

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This stocky emerald cut has closed ends, but has a good amount of flash.  In the daylight its color definitely has a bronze, brownish cast in the medium dark plus toned, yellow green color.  But this is a gemstone that … Continue reading →

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Bare dichroic, medium toned, slightly bronze, green emerald cut.#429

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This emerald cut is oriented with the c axis and its bronze color across the stone rather than in the ends,like the vast majority of emerald cuts.  Since the stone is barely dichroic in tone values, the bronze color and … Continue reading →

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Open ended flashy emerald cut with a bit of olive in the color.#427

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This is a nice smaller emerald cut with normal ends and a good amount of flash.  The c axis is sort of a olive bronze that gives the stone a below average color.  It does appear to be eye clean … Continue reading →

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Very bright bronze and green, dichroic, emerald cut.#402

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Bruce Fry

The posted stone, emerald cut, 1.13 carats. Older cut stone, round, .83 carats  Same material. I like a stone like this very bright emerald cut.  It has a very good green c axis color and a more muted bronze a/b … Continue reading →

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Bronze to olive green shield cut.#198

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Sometimes you never know which part of the collection will spark the appreciation for tourmaline that I hope to instill in my fellow man.  When I spent a day with a curator of gems and minerals at a large eastern … Continue reading →

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Bronze star for this round since the color doesn’t sell it.#193

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Bronze is a nice way of saying that the yellow green has enough brown in it to be darker and not as flash.  And that is what we have with this standard round brilliant.  It is a rather common color … Continue reading →

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Medium Toned, Yellow Green Bronze Round #93

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This medium toned standard round brilliant is both not a dense stone or one that is excessively brown.  Its color is not completely driven by flash and under a gray sky I can see some bronze flash mixed into a … Continue reading →

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An emerald cut with a greened bronze color.#713

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Now a collection of tourmalines that wants to be inclusive can not only go for the eye candy in the world.  Besides I wouldn’t have a lot to cut if every stone had to have great commercial potential.  This dichroic … Continue reading →

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Oval with Dreaded Olive Green Color#1002

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Bruce Fry

  This larger oval has a very common and not very appreciated color, olive green.  I have not really run into other gemstones being called olive green, but some yellowish greens with a touch of brown produces a tourmaline that … Continue reading →

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