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Tag Archives: outstanding
A classic Rubellite, inclusions and all.#285
This oval is a pure Rubellite, a treasure trade name for truly red tourmaline. It has the inclusions, which in this case make little difference in the appearance of the gemstone. It has the dark tone level, but in this … Continue reading
A medium toned purple with significant flaws.#281
This standard round brilliant is typical of the type of cuprian tourmaline that became available after the world was introduced to its beauty. About half of it is clean and flashy while the rest is so included that it obstructs … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc.
Tagged cuprian, medium, Mozambique, outstanding, purple
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Copper and Manganese made a Lady of Her, round#271
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
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged color change, cuprian, laurellite, lavender, Mozambique, outstanding, pastel, personal story, purple
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Eye candy alert, orange tang on the menu, oval beauty.#270
Some colors do not need much to get me going. Orange is one of them. An influential tourmaline expert once wrote that he questioned whether orange was a naturally occurring color in tourmaline. It certainly has not been a big … Continue reading
An exceptional, red purple emerald cut with punch.#949
I have not been particularly enamored with many of the purple reds that I have seen. The purple cast seems to produce an overly dark tone level that limits flash. Well this emerald cut stands above all that. It is … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Rubellite
Tagged emerald cut, Nigeria, outstanding, red, red-purple, rubellite
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Great blue pink bicolor from Afghanistan.#947
This emerald cut is a beautiful gemstone. It has a body that is a little over half pink with the remainder blue. Both pastel colors have a great medium light tone value. It appears to be eye clean and of … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged afghan, bicolor, blue, emerald cut, outstanding, pastel, pink
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This is a GEM, exceptional gemstone, sea foam, emerald cut.#444
Now I knew that this was an exceptional gem, but it was in a different tray than the other sea foams, so I never really compare it with them. Now, thanks to this effort in posting (2013), I have all … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Verdelite
Tagged afghan, emerald cut, green, outstanding, seafoam, verdelite
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Exceptional Rubellite Unique to the Collection Round.#1162
Deeply cut bicolor, colorless crown, red pavilion, 6.60 carats. Nice longer ratio emerald cut with bright red c axis, 4.51 carats This is a GEM, an exceptional gemstone. It has everything including a secret. But first a question. How do … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc., Rubellite
Tagged colorless, horizontal split mains, outstanding, red, rubellite
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Best blue in the house goes to Namibia, droplet of color#1148
Now it is the policy of the house is that the judging of color be done without regard to size, cleanliness or country of origin. This standard round brilliant won the coveted title of best blue on its own merits. … Continue reading
Posted in Droplets of Color, Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, droplet-of-color, indicolite, Namibia, outstanding
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Summing up the parts, beautiful yellow green shield cut.#1124
With all the difficulty and expense of getting natural tourmaline rough, it makes me wonder sometimes why I just don’t cut synthetic. I don’t believe in any mystical force of nature or the healing power of natural gemstones, but I … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Verdelite
Tagged green, outstanding, shield, verdelite, yellow-green
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Classic blue green emerald cut tourmaline.#1118
There, I have brought up the fact,in the title, that this beauty which screams tourmaline when you look at it, is a tourmaline. I think you may have been surprised by the world of color in tourmaline as you brows … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Polishing Tourmaline, Verdelite
Tagged blue-green, emerald cut, green, outstanding, polishing tourmaline
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Blue to blue green medium dark round.#142
This is a beautiful gemstone. I never realized until I started posting my collection that I had so many blue to blue green medium dark gemstones. This one has to be one of the best. It is eye clean and … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, green-blue, indicolite, medium blue, outstanding
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High quality medium dark blue round#132
My principle supplier from Africa has pretty much given up on supplying a provenance for his tourmaline rough. He generally deals indirectly with the mines threw a “miner” who really is a whole sale intermediary. The natural inclination of these … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, blue-green, indicolite, medium blue, outstanding
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A perfect beautifully green chrome tourmaline.#117
Saying a chrome tourmaline is green is redundant, but I don’t want anyone, even for a moment to think that this standard round brilliant is anything other than the ideal green tourmaline in a medium tone level. It is not … Continue reading
Now we have an outstanding, Tang orange colored shield cut.#189
I don’t know how many people remember Tang or whether they still make it anymore, but it was one of the memorable items on my mother’s diet along with peanut and bananas, on dark Hollywood bread, sandwiches. Well this shield … Continue reading
Ultimate eye candy in the name of a medium toned pink, shield cut#186
On one of the group of pages that my principle rough dealer puts out on the internet, he had a special group of tourmaline that seemed to be particularly colorful. I have lost track of the other pieces of rough … Continue reading
This is a pink that is almost too rich and powerful for a simple shield cut.#177
Their are wonderfully flighty and flirtatious pinks in the world and then there are powerful pinks that let you know who is boss. This eye clean, rich and powerful shield cut is quite a warrior. Her sultry, darkly toned recesses … Continue reading
Lots of competition to be eye candy in yellow green, meet a winning round #92
This standard round brilliant has a great combination of decent size, bright yellow with a wash of green color, eye clean purity and fine crystal to be eye candy and she has accepted the honor. She weighed in at 2.05 … Continue reading
Unique faceted watermelon pink center, green rind, emerald cut. #69
Everyone seems to love watermelon tourmaline,(a crystal with a pink core that runs down the long axis of Elbaite tourmaline that is coated with a green rind.), but it is rare that this distribution of color is useful to the … Continue reading
Posted in Bi-Color, Etc.
Tagged bicolor, emerald cut, outstanding, unique, watermelon
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A great, clean, yellow green piece of eye candy, copper bearing round. #62
This is a beautiful gemstone. Its acid yellow green color seems to burn a hold threw the little plastic box I store it in. Its medium toned splendor is augmented by having copper as a chromophore in its chemistry. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Verdelite
Tagged cuprian, green, neon, outstanding, yellow-green
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Mom’s Stone, A GEM of blue force from Namibia, emerald cut.#397
I have been looking forward to sharing this GEM, exceptional gemstone, with you. It came as a lot of one, separate from all the well saturated medium dark toned material I had been getting from Namibia. Its bright blue hue … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, emerald cut, indicolite, medium blue, Namibia, outstanding
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Crown jewel, a Blue Emerald Cut, in Lot from Namibia#381
This is a beautiful gemstone. It came in a lot of over a dozen pieces of rough that I bought privately from my principle African deal. At the time it seemed to be a continuance of steady production from Namibia, … Continue reading
Posted in Etc., Indicolite
Tagged blue, closed-c, emerald cut, indicolite, Namibia, outstanding
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Large Exquisite Purple Round, One of the Best Tourmalines in Collection#291
When I started faceting again after a long hiatus, one of the colors I wanted very much was bluish purples. I could get purples as shades of pink and red, but to go to the blue side was unattainable. Then … Continue reading
Posted in Cuprian Tourmaline, Etc., Laurellite
Tagged blue-purple, cuprian, laurellite, outstanding, purple, unique
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It is final, this is the best green, bar none, in the collection!
Now that is a big title for such a small stone, but it is true. This standard round brilliant only weighs .21 carats, but it is a chrome tourmaline and that means GREEN. Chrome is really a misnomer because it … Continue reading
Posted in Dravite, Droplets of Color, Etc.
Tagged chrome, dravite, droplet-of-color, green, outstanding
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