MISC Tourmaline Gemstones | The Bruce Fry Tourmaline Collection | The Definitive Guide to the World of Color in Tourmaline Gemstones

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This emerald cut came from Brazil and is a nice eye clean pastel pink and green bicolor. It has good crystal and weighs 1.57 carats.

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This tricolor is dominated by an exceptional blue green color, along with nice clear and pink sections. The emerald cut is eye clean and very bright in all areas of the gem. It weighs 2.36 carats.

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This pastel emerald cut consists of a band of green than a wide band of pink and than another band of green. It was cut from a watermelon tourmaline. It has radial flaws in the green bands, but a clean center. It weighs 3.75 carats

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This pastel emerald cut consists of a band of green than a wide band of pink and than another band of green. It was cut from a watermelon tourmaline. It has radial flaws in the green bands, but a clean center. It weighs 3.75 carats

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This tricolor, blue green, colorless and pink, gemstone is beautiful. It is a classic ensemble from Afghanistan. I particularly like the dominant blue green color. It weighs 3.35 carats.

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This emerald cut has a pale tone level and a long ratio. The bicolor is split between one third pink and two thirds blue with both colors having a similar pastel look. It is eye clean and weighs 4.59 carats.

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This standard round brilliant appears eye clean and is a bright mixture of pink and green. The pink and green can more or less mix into a beige. It is an interesting stone and weighs 4.40 carats.

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This larger standard round brilliant has areas of pink and green that are mixed together by the cut and produce yellows and oranges. How much mixing is done depends on the light. It weighs 9.17 carats. Nigerian

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I got this material from Thailand and just played around making an oval like this. It definitely has a gray cast to its colorless body (probably heated). It is eye clean and weighs 3.16 carats.

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This eye clean emerald cut has the stronger peach dichroic ends and slightly brownish sides. It is eye clean and a bright flashy stone. It weighs 2.82 carats.

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This dark gray emerald cut has a reasonable amount of transparency in good light. Its flash is more like light movement than a crisp flash. It is here to show the wonderful range of colors and tone values that tourmaline comes in. It is clean and weighs 3.18 carats.

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Tourmaline can be gray naturally, but this I think has been heated. It is eye clean and medium toned. It weighs 4.29 carats.

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An interesting gemstone with earth tones that is unique in the collection. The oval is eye clean and has good crystal, but you need to examine this one closely to appreciate it. It weighs 6.09 carats.

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This material was probably heated. It is a bright light gray Barion cushion and weighs 5.38 carats.

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The mixing of the two color zones in this emerald cut produces a kind of transient purple tone in places. It is rather a personal stone that needs good light to perform. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 6.21 carats. A tourmaline with a difference.

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This is a beautiful gemstone. It has medium toned areas of pink/ green that are mixed by the standard round brilliant into yellow/ orange. The degree of mixing depends on the light. It weighs 7.37 carats.

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This dark flash driven green emerald cut is a Dravite, the species, and displays the usambala effect. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 1.12 carats.

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I love this stone. It gradually goes from pastel yellow to a medium green color in a great bicolor. It appears to be eye clean and is as bright as an emerald cut can be. It weighs 8.33 carats.

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This is a fun and pretty gemstone. The bulk of the gem maybe a very pale green, but it appears to be colorless normally. The fun part comes from a dot of pink that plays in the culet and makes the whole stone look like a piece of glittering candy. It appears to be eye clean with great clarity and weighs 3.25 carats.

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This dark,, gray/brown, ended emerald cut has a faint band of pink threw a mostly darkened gold body. It has one radial flaw that developed under a narrow dark band in the middle of the gemstone during cutting. It is still an interesting stone. It weighs 5.08 carats.

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The very fine inclusion scattered in this small standard round brilliant look like dots of light in a very bright background. The colorless stone weighs .74 carats.

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This standard round brilliant was an attempt to see how blue and pink would mix. They really did not in this round that is heavely included. It weighs 2.66 carats.

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This gray is bright and flashy. It appears to be eye clean and gives excitement even in a neutral color. It has a medium light tone value and weighs 2.88 carats.

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This smaller standard round brilliant has a sea of fine inclusions and lower quality crystal, but is still bright and flashy. Its claim to fame is a bit of pink in the culet and a halo of blue around it. Both colors have the same tone value and go together well. It weighs .86 carats.

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This dark rich oval appears to be eye clean. Its principle axis color is a dark ae sort of bronze color. The stone still flashes well at a personal level. It appears to have fine crystal and weigh 3.27 carats.

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I like this gemstone. Its color is a spicy green that goes from a medium toned end to a pale end. And the whole stone is enlivened with richer dichroic grass green ends. It is eye clean and has great crystal. A very bright emerald cut that weighs 3,32 carats.

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This is a fine, eye clean, bright, hot pink standard round brilliant. It is a bit of a show off when it flashes so cleanly, but the droplets accept her. She weighs .72 carats.

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This standard round brilliant was needed to help complete the color world of the droplets of color. It is just insignificantly included and is bright and flashy. It weighs a grey 1.22 carats.

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This emerald cut is so bright and flashy that it looks like carved glistening ice. Half of the bi color is a very pale blue and the other half is a bit stronger pink. It appears to be eye clean and weighs 2.34 carats. It is the founding princess of the IceT group of very pale colored stones.

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I love this gemstone. This larger emerald cut is outstanding in all quarters. Its bright powder pink end slides into the cream end with spirit and balance. Its medium tone level lets the gemstone be extremely bright and flashy. It weighs a great 10.50 carats.

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This Achroite might be a pale pale wheat, but either way it is bright and flashy. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 5.01 carats.

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This smaller standard round brilliant is a blend of three pastel colors, colorless, pink and blue. It is moderately included and the inclusions effect the flash of the stone. It weighs .33 carats.

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This smaller emerald cut is just lightly included. That doesn't effect the stones brightness and flash. It has a very pale mixture of colorless, pink and blue color. It weighs .70 carats.

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This oval has a deep split main pavilion and a normal depth stepped crown. It is eye clean and has an unusual color determination (rusty yellow) because of different color areas in the gemstone. It is quite bright with excellent crystal. It weighs 2.73 carats.

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I like this stone. It is a sophisticated pink to grayed cream bi color. It appears to be eye clean and with fine crystal. The pink is nice and hot and grayed cream fills somewhat less than half the stone. It is a nice balance. It weighs 2.42 carts.

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This longer ratio and narrow bi color has a well balanced set of pastel colors, blue and pink. The emerald cut is very pure and bright. It weighs 2.82 carats.

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This dark standard round brilliant was cut with its table perpendicular to the principle axis. This makes a stone that reveals most of its color, in this case an intense blue, when the stone is tilted and rotated. The stone is not very transparent down the center of the stone, face up. It appears to be eye clean and weighs .86 carats.

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I like this gemstone. Not only is it an eye clean bi color, but the shape of the reddish part show that it was the terminus before the crystal continued to grow. On top of being interesting it is pretty. It weighs 10.19 carats.

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This bright eye clean standard round brilliant has areas of green and areas of pink. They stay pretty distinct in this stone. The round appears to be eye clean and have fine crystal. It weighs 2.45 carats.

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No creamy shades in this bright white, achroite. Unfortunately it does have a variety of small inclusions and low quality crystal that cloud some of the flash. This standard round brilliant weighs .65 carats.

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I like this stone. It is a longer ratio, water white, emerald cut. It is so white and bright that it is shocking. Now I have other achroite, most of which are rounds with more flash than emerald cuts. Without so much distracting flash, the emerald cut is truly a color cut and any color in the stone will be shown. But that does not faze this tourmaline at all. It is absolutely without any color, including grays. It weighs 1.92 carats.

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This is an interesting and unique example of Laurellite. (A cuprian tourmaline with a reverse Alexandrite color change.) Only the violetish side of the stone changes color in different white lights. One end of the bi color is relatively pure while the other end has many fine inclusions. It is still a pretty stone regardless of its cuprian nature. It weighs 1.16 carats.

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I like this gemstone. It is large and bright and is eye clean. Which is great for a bi color that goes from a fine pink to cream. It also like to flash and weighs 11.95. I think it should be called GEM. (highest grade of gemstone.)

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This cuprian tourmaline has a fine medium toned body with plenty of flash. It is a pure cyan color without dichroism. It is eye clean and the only pear shaped gemstone in the collection. It weighs 13.90 carats and is a GEM.

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This beautiful bicolor has medium toned pastel blue and pink ends. It is from Afghanistan and is bright emerald cut with great crystal, that all adds up to being a GEM. It weighs 6.41 carats.

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You could call this color just brown, but it is way too vivid and and orangish for that mundane label, so I call it cinnamon. The long ratio emerald cut appears to be eye clean and have great crystal. It weighs 2.04 carats.

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This eye clean Achroite might have just a touch of a neutral color, but it is colorless to me. Tourmaline is very reflective and bright when it is pure and polished correctly. It weighs 1.75 carats.

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When you cut a mixed color stone into a round, you never really know what you are going to get. This standard round brilliant turned out to be a different shade of pastel purple. It appears to be eye clean and have decent amount of flash. There are some dark factors in the color. It weighs .75 carats.

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This emerald cut has a very good balance of the three colors, pink yellowish and green. It is eye clean and each color has enough tone to be seen easily. It is even flashy for an emerald cut because it has excellent crystal. It weighs 3.29 carats.

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This emerald cut is eye clean and has great crystal. This shows off its bicolor qualities very well. It is about two thirds a medium rich pink and one third gray. It weighs 2.02 carats.

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This is a unique tourmaline in the collection. It has a grayish blue table, that's color goes half way toward the girdle, which is peach. It has a deep pavilion of split horizontal mains. It weighs 1.87 carats.

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This oval is the remains of a pink centered/blue rind watermelon tourmaline. It is bright and appears to be eye clean. It is unique in the collection for its color distribution. It weighs .75 carats.

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This small standard round brilliant is bright and colorless. It probably started out as a light blue piece of rough, but I can not see any color in the finished gem. It is eye clean and weighs .39 carats.

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This deeply cut round does not look like a tourmaline. I has a pastel purple crown and a pastel green pavilion. The stone is eye clean and with fine crystal. It weighs 2.01 carats and flashes both colors.

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This oval has a frisky yellowish spot that is made by mixing the pink body with a bit of yellow green in the pavilion. It is eye clean and bright.. It weighs 1.87 carat and came from Nigeria.