There are times when you truly wish that you could get an eye clean specimen of a certain shade of color for the collection. Well the posted standard round brilliant is an object of that wishful thinking. It is a hot, bright and quite included, pink. Now to be wishing about pink of all colors, after all the pinks I have cut, may seem strange, but not all pinks are created equal. This pink is blessed with such visual presence that if I ever had a clean ten carat stone, cut be yours truly, it would blow me away. The posted gemstone rolls in at 1.37 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.
