Fancy Portugues Square Cut Tourmaline by Daniel Stair
Fancy Portugues Square Cut Tourmaline, Afghanistan, 8.95 cts
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.
| Color | Light Pink |
| Clarity | Very Good+ (Eye Clean) |
| Cut | Fancy Portugues Square |
| Weight | 8.95 cts |
| Dimensions | 10.4 mm |
| Origin Country | Afghanistan |
| 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. |
| Attribution | Daniel Stair |