The combination of medium tone, well saturated yellow without green and a reasonably clean body that flashes without regard for the few small inclusions is first class. It weighs 3.24 carats.
This is a shield cut to get excited about. It was the premier stone cut from two water worn pebbles I got over the internet from Tanzania years before “canary” tourmaline was discovered (canary tourmaline is a recently discovered yellow that is quite expensive from Tanzania). The pebbles were at best semi-facet grade and all the stones I cut from them are at least lightly included. Still I have never been able to get the same yellow without green, medium tone level, along with the best saturated yellow in the collection, any time since and I have tried. As with the other gemstone from the nodules, this shield cut is slightly included, but it doesn’t slow it down in the least. I love this 3.24 carat shield cut.
Bruce
About Bruce Fry
I was born in Summit, NJ in 1947 and graduated from Summit High School in 1966. I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1970 and after spending another year in graduate school, I left to see the world of Brazil. After spending some more time discovering myself, I ended up working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 32 years as an Air Quality Engineer in the Department of Environmental Protection. I retired in 2007 and took up faceting gemstones again after a long hiatus that reached back to my twenties. I had started cutting cabochons when I was 13 and bought my first faceting machine when I was 15, but ran out of money and time until I retired.
My great love in gemology is tourmaline and the collection presented here represents my effort to get as much beauty and variety in the colors of tourmaline as I can. I was particularly lucky in being able to get unheated cuprian tourmaline before copper was discovered in gem grade tourmaline from Mozambique.
The combination of medium tone, well saturated yellow without green and a reasonably clean body that flashes without regard for the few small inclusions is first class. It weighs 3.24 carats.
