This oval has at least one very eye visible spot in it It is on the pavilion and I have been able to pick it up from the crown, but it is quite visible from the back. Besides that mark against it. this is a very mixed up tourmaline color wise. I think it aspires to be a yellow, but I see indications of green and peach to pink in it. I think that is a bit much for me on the beauty side, but it is interesting and certainly not found in many types of gemstones. In many ways this is a lower grade tourmaline, but the cut and polish are up to collection standards. It is the way I work and I have cut all the stones in this collection, no matter the quality of the rough. It weighs 1.89 carats.
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.
