This emerald cut weighs 1.06 carats. It has open ends and is eye clean. A nice high quality small ring stone.
This rather pudgy emerald cut wins the day with open ends that are more greenish than the rather blue a/b color (typical). The emerald cut permits you to see the different colors easily because it isolates the c axis color in the ends. So what do we have when I look at the stone from a reasonable distance. Broad rectangular flashes of blue with scintillating ends of greenish blue. A nice high quality view. Oh, and it weighs 1.06 carat, just over that magic weight (one carat) when buying a diamond. By the way you get more with a carat of tourmaline than diamond and in many cases I think tourmaline is prettier.
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.