This standard round brilliant is wonderful in the rays of my yellow light. When I took it outside to be sure that it did not turn purple under the gray autumn sky, it stayed wonderfully red. We have a winner. The big red one is planted squarely on the .93 carats round’s shoulders. Even in a pale diffuse light the red does not get too dark and keeps on sparkling. Wow, do I love red and this little round in particular, because on top of all that color, it is eye clean. I realize that I should cool my passion for this exceptional red, because it is small and if it was a larger stone its tone level would be too dark to be a fine red. (A not unusual problem with reds) Still everything works great with this little champ and we should laud it. (It may even have copper)
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.
