Tag Archives: mahogany

Dissecting a Dravite Hot Off the Lap.

Posted on December 23, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I am continually amazed by the variety of dynamic colors in tourmaline.  And shifts in color than can make a less desirable color in gemstone still blaze with a unique statement.  And a unique tourmaline certainly gets my attention. The … Continue reading →

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I wouldn’t call this anything, but mahogany or maybe golden brown, oval#299

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Brown was suppose to be brown and then I got into mahogany.  Now I am seeing storage boxes with golden brown on the back and I see the most wonder rich sultry mahogany under my yellowish florescent light.  I check … Continue reading →

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Desatured orange I call mahogany, oval.#278

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I usually don’t go too far over the edge when it comes to naming tourmaline’s colors and I have brown on this stone’s storage box, but the gem is too nice for such a bland term.  This desaturated brownish orange … Continue reading →

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Mahogany, brown orange, droplet of color.#940

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Bruce Fry

Now what is in a name.  Too much I am afraid.  This standard round brilliant is a pretty gemstone.  It appears to be eye clean and has fine crystal.  Its medium dark tone value still permits the stone to be … Continue reading →

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A brown red to red depending on the light, round #99

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This standard round brilliant is a beautiful gemstone.  It has a great, well saturated red in yellowish light, but to its eternal regret, it does brown out in the  bluer, natural light of days.  I forgive it though and gave … Continue reading →

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Mahogany Barion cushion cut. #84

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This is a beauty gemstone with a great brown (root beer) hue.  Some would say that a brown can not be great, but this Barion cushion cut mixes the pastel brown a/b axis color with the much richer orange brown … Continue reading →

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Medium dark toned orange brown flash, round #79

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This is one of the “modern” dravites that has come out of East Africa.  It is not too dark to have decent flash and the orange tones make it spicy enough to demand a new name rather than dravite in … Continue reading →

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A brown descent into orange wood, mahogany,round.#543

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Bruce Fry

When I looked at the back of this standard round brilliant to look for flaws I was somewhat frustrated by my past cutting behavior.  There was a white inclusion about one third of the way up from the pavilion and … Continue reading →

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An incredibly dichroic mahogany oval#289

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I have been waiting to post about this longer ratio, deeply cut oval.  Face up the dravite, a trade name for brown tourmaline,  looks like many of the brown gems I have posted about, with the possible exception that its … Continue reading →

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A brown has come around, again, oval.#288

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I smile when I wrote again in the title, because I like this stone and I wish that more browns would roll my way.  But I haven’t seen any for years (2013).  I am sure the rough came from East … Continue reading →

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You may call it mahongany or I might call it root beer, oval#278

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Bruce Fry

I haven’t seen this material in a long time.  It is a desaturated orange that makes a fine rich browned orange.  I think that this stone is cut with the table perpendicular to the c axis and that produces a … Continue reading →

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A mahogany GEM flashes in the collection, emerald cut.

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Bruce Fry

The composite color brown (a color not found in the rainbow that comes from mixing colors) does not get very much respect in the color stone world.  I realize that might be changing with the development of a market for … Continue reading →

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Smaller dichroic reddish brown emerald cut.

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Bruce Fry

This dichroic emerald cut has rich reddish brown ends and moderate, browner sides.  The sum of the colors produces what I like to call mahogany.  The stone has a darker tone, but the mahogany is interesting in stronger light or … Continue reading →

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Large Dravite wins ugliest award#968

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Bruce Fry

  This large standard brilliant round weighs in at 23.4 carats, which makes it a heavy weight contender.  It came to me preformed to be a round and I did not have any qualms about going with the shape.   I … Continue reading →

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Small Dravite droplet of color#940

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Bruce Fry

  This little dravite is darkly toned and could be called a mahogany by some, like me.  It deserves a place in the droplet of color world at 1.30 carats.   It definitely likes a good light to be enjoyed.   … Continue reading →

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