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ex. Peter Bancroft
This pastel colored, blue-green, gem crystal of aqua, is totally transparent. It is prismatic with several pyramids modifying the basal pinacoid. Its gem weight is 65 grams. Rarely does one see an aqua so completely gemmy, and this complex termination is also uncommon. This would have been one of the earlier pieces trickling out of Pakistan! The true color , in person, has a bit of seafoam green mixed in, as shown in the upper-left image.
ex. Peter Bancroft
This pegmatite has produced arguably the best and largest number of fine morganites in the world from any one small find, back about 25 years ago now. This is a HUGE specimen with so much color and impact, because of the size, that it seems fake at first! It masses/weighs just over a kilo. This specimen is translucent to transparent throughout, highly lustrous, and a rich pink-lavender color that is distinct from that of the piece above. In fact, the color for this piece is really quite lovely and differrent from any other Brazilian morganite I have seen, beecause of this slight tint to lavender. This specimen can be viewed on either side, or stood vertically with the edge facing the viewer. On what I consider the back side, there are a couple of small, green elbaite prisms , and minor shcorls are included throughout. Despite its size, there is only the most trivial of dings in a few spots, nothing detracting - a miracle, given the size! This is one whopper of a morganite, both literally and figuratively, for ANY locale. IT IS MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!!!!!
These apophyllites from this small new find of which I bought nearly all, are frosted on the surface with a sparkly druse of microcrystalline quartz. They exhibit a wonderful and unique Blue-green hue and sit nicely on contrasting quartz and 2.5 cm white, lustrous stilbite crystals. BEST OF POCKET!
This is a very dramatic piece with a central emerald flanked by "wings" of crystallized calcite. The 2.8-cm-tall emerald is of top color and glassy lustre, and is very large for such a specimen. It is entirely transparent throughout, though with internal veils as usual in a specimen. You can see righ tthrough it to the underlaying matrix! The emerald is complete, and undamaged per se, though it has a small natural contact in the upper-left that is visible (only) on close inspection and does not visually detract. However, because of this very slight growth imperfection, and the fact that I got this reasonably in a trade, the price is about half or a third what you would normally expect to pay for a 1-inch-plus emerald in crystallized matrix of such quality. The calcite is as remarkable , also of unusual size for crystals from this mine. The combined contrast of colors and geometry is striking. Most desirable emerald specimens MUST be on the crystallized matrix, and of the various styles most people consider dark calcite to be the more desirable because it serves to enhance the hue of the emerald. This piece, interestingly, has both dark and white calcite , providing a very neat double-color contrast to the emerald itself.
This crystal has DEEP blue color, really in a class above the normal Pakistani aquas and characteristic of the rarer Nepalese aquas when found. Lustre is extremely good, like glass, and the piece is better in person! It is also doubly-terminated, although one end is tapered and makes a more natural upper end (shown) than the other. The bottom termination, shown below, is complete although rough from regrowth in the pocket.
A fat crystal of excellent lustre and color, and moderate gemminess especially near the tip, sits atop a cluster of smaller, weathered crystals (not broken or damaged per se). The large crystal is 2 cm , though only 1 cm sticks up above the cluster fully. it is freestanding and dramatic, which I like a lot, and LOOKS visually very impressive for the price because of this fact. ex. Irv Brown collection
Beryl comes in virtually every color of the rainbow. This particular gem is a beautiful blue Aquamarine from the Brazilian gem fields. This stone is virtually eye clean and has a light "aqua blue" color. The stone has a Pear cut. It's a good size stone for a pendant if you so wish, but it would stand alone as a great single stone in a shelf or gem box. Gem quality Aquas are becoming more and more difficult to buy (for reasonable prices) from Brazil, and it seems that the cost of these gems keeps going up every year.
ex. Robert Whitmore
A vivid, gemmy blue 3.3 x 1.3 x 0.9 cm aquamarine is here perched in massive quartz matrix. This specimen is a beautiful piece of extremely high quality for a Maine aquamarine - sinc emost from this region are opaque or pale, or both. Here, however, is a peice with areas so gemmy you can cut stones out of, and it is a terminated crystal no less. A favorite in the colleciton, used in my advertisements.
ex. Robert Whitmore
A stunningly gemmy, intense blue aquamarine from famous finds in the 1980s in this remote location. Idaho beryls are extremely rare to come by, and this crystal is an exceptional reward for the wait. It is terminated, though slightly etched atop.
ex. Robert Whitmore
A limpid, clear, sculptural cluster of parallel-growth aquamarine crystals, from a remote find that came to market in the late 1980s as I recall (he bought or traded for this in 1989). This is an attractive miniature, complete all around except one fairly trivial little ding. We all thought a flood of pegmatite gems would come out of China, but time has proven this assumption wrong, and not much does come out in the way of gem crystals.
ex. Robert Whitmore
A limpid, clear, DOUBLY-TERMINATED FLOATER aquamarine, from a small find that came to market in the late 1980s and seems never to have been repeated. We all thought a flood of pegmatite gems would come out of China, but time has proven this assumption wrong, and not much does come out in the way of gem crystals. This is a gorgeous crystal, and I think would cost more if it were from Jacqueto in Brazil - a style which it mimics so well.
This very unusual; crystal features a 4.5 x 4 x 2.2 cm haxagonal top perched atop a 5 cm stalk of etched beryl. It is extremely unusual in appearance and although it has some edge wear and edge damage here and there (hence the low price), presents quite nicely.
Just a huge, fat, glowing green emerald! It is rather crude in the back due to some contact and damage on the back faces, but is fully terminated and displays impressively. It has very good, even color, quite dark actually, and is transparent or highly translucent through about 75% of the crystal. Given the thickness, this is exceptional! In sum, it LOOKS like a very expensive piece, but is not.
ex. Sam Nasser
A very deeply-colored 1.4 cm-long crystal, perched smartly in solid matrix and not the usual crumbly matrix! The crystal is doubly terminated. It is complete save only a minor contact or damage spot on the back-rear of the lefthand termination. It displays magnificently with light coming through each end, as they are freestanding!
ex. Sam Nasser
GLASSY, transparent crystal with riveting blue color! Hard to photograph, but it is much nicer in person. This is a classic, surely from teh 1800s
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