Tag Archives: lavender

Copper and Manganese made a Lady of Her, round#271

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I am not a great believer in luck, but there are times when you’re game plan works out.  My game plan with the collection was not to secure the best investments or even the prettiest tourmaline, but to chase color.  … Continue reading →

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Lavender without copper, grayed and slightly included, emerald cut.#1117

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I love purples derived from copper and manganese in tourmaline, but I never wanted them to be my whole purple world.  Therefor I have set sail many times on the quest for any purple with a challenge, are you out … Continue reading →

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Lightly toned well saturated lavender oval, cuprian#41

Posted on November 6, 2013 by Bruce Fry

  The rough for the lightly toned lavender was cut from a large dark purplish red nodule that had been heated to lighten it.  It would have probably gone completely light blue if the heating continued.  The blue is from … Continue reading →

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Historic lavender deeply cut round, Mozambique, cuprian#31

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This round has a horizontally split main pavilion and a deep crown.  This helped produce a stronger medium light tone value in the first lavender tourmaline I had ever seen.  The stone is eye clean and with fine crystal. This … Continue reading →

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Medium toned, lightly included lavender droplet of color, cuprian #11

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I love lavender tourmaline and can turn a very deaf eye to their inclusions.  But with this standard round brilliant I don’t have to.   It has some fine scatter, a but it is pretty transparent and flashy.  The color has … Continue reading →

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Eye clean with good crystal, lavender droplet of color, cuprian#1

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I usually don’t advertise the gemstones cleanliness in its title, but with cuprian tourmaline it is a question with every stone, no matter how small.  I am sure that I purchased the rough and finished the standard round brilliant before … Continue reading →

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Lavender Tourmaline, Lavender Tourmaline, Shield Cut, Cuprian#196

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Bruce Fry

It is probably unnecessary and maybe even childish to type the same color before tourmaline twice in the title of this post.  It is just a way to express how important this color is in my world of color in … Continue reading →

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Decent lavender without copper emerald cut.#715

Posted on October 6, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This emerald cut will not win any prizes for cleanliness or excessive brightness since its crystal is below average, but its color assure it a place in the collection.  This is one of my better non-cuprian purples and it is … Continue reading →

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Slightly included, gorgeous, lavender round, that is cuprian.#271

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I don’t believe that this saturated (purity of color) a purple exists in tourmaline without  a copper component in its chemistry.  (I think it maybe possible with iron and manganese and I haven’t seen it all, so who knows for … Continue reading →

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Lavender pink oval without copper

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Lavender pinks have generally not been prized over pinks in tourmaline.  I think that it is rather toned down from pink, like its more intense purple red sisters.  This oval of medium  tone is interesting, as a contrast to the … Continue reading →

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Lavender IceT that is a droplet too. Copper Bearing

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Sometimes it is not too bad to be small.  I am a standard round brilliant and I am in demand because I am lavender and eye clean.  I just wish that the IceT group didn’t think I belonged.  I hate … Continue reading →

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A lighter lavender with a selection of moderately light inclusions, round

Posted on September 22, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Lavender, in the words of a poet, is copper’s sweet song of seduction in tourmaline.  It seduces me into accepting flaw material that would be questionable in other colors of tourmaline.  And when I am reward with an included gemstone, … Continue reading →

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Lavender purple without copper droplet

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This standard round brilliant is a welcome guest because it is pastel purple without copper content.  One of the complexities of color in tourmaline is the production of similar if not exactly the same color by different chromophores.  In this … Continue reading →

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