This emerald cut with normal end angles is certainly a very saturated blue with out any traces of green in natural light. (touch of green in yellowish light as expected) It flashes nicely in a decent light, but has a higher than perfect tone level. Still it is pure and bright for such a dark emerald cut. And blues (indicolites) are so desirable. The gemstone weighs a solid 2.59 carats and would make a fine ring stone. Set in a fine gold setting, I am sure that many people would think this was a sapphire and the jester of gemstones would have struck again. The games tourmaline plays in copying the colors of other gemstones help keep me cutting.
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.
