Research has shown that two areas of the visible spectrum produce shifts of color with tone level that are non-linear. A darker line will not necessary have the same color as a lighter line even if you use the same ink. I am running into many pink/peach like that posted standard round brilliant, that are in the red/orange non-linear area. The effect that you will notice is that the photograph may not look that close to my description. I will try and do better, but I am looking at the genuine article when I describe it, not the photograph. The posted stone appears to be eye clean and of medium tone. It weighs 2.46 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.
