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.
This emerald cut weighs 1.06 carats. It has open ends and is eye clean. A nice high quality small ring stone.
