STONE: Tourmaline
WEIGHT: 8.95 cts.
CUT: Fancy Portugues Square
DIMENSIONS: 10.4 mm
ORIGIN: Afghanistan
COLOR: Light Pink
CLARITY: Very Good+ (Eye Clean)
PRICE (U.S. Dollars): SOLD
ITEM # to264
COMMENTS: This is one big, extremely brilliant tourmaline,
especially for an uncommon pink stone from Afghanistan. I cut the
bottom as a sort of Portuguese round that I "barionized" into a cut cornered
square shape. The crown is a scissors design. This thing REALLY
SPARKLES and was hard to look at in sunlight. Also, it dsplays only
a mild color shift indoors toward more of a champaigne color, but not an
unpleasant brown. I had the chance to pick some of the nicest rough
out of a huge parcel of rare Afghani pink tourmalines, and this was the
biggest one with good color. This is likely a "world class" gemstone.
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