Description

Variety: tourmaline
Carat weight: 2.90 cts
Measurements:10.0x7.0x6.90mm
Clarity: eye clean
Color: pale pink to medium orange

I am a physicist, gemologist, long time collector and gem cutter. I posted on Pricescope under name zeolite from 2008-2019.

This tourmaline is a very complex cut, quite unusual, and difficult to execute. It has a diamond outline (8 sided girdle), but not with a typical emerald cut, step cut pavilion. Instead, it has a pointed, deeper Barion cut pavilion, which requires a larger, deeper, more rare crystal to execute, but provides even more brightness. The first picture was taken in daylight, cool light. The second picture is taken with warmer evening light. So it seems to be something of a color change tourmaline, with a beautiful, unusual cut. I don't think I have ever seen this color combination before in any gem species.