This specimen is a floater, COMPLETE and terminated all around with all three of the quartzes even doubly-terminated. The bottom termination on the emerald is rough, but its a termination. The piece must have gronw rapidly in pocket and then fallen from the matrix, while solution of emerald was still flowing through to cap off and continue growth on the once-broken termination at bottom. The top faces are sharp and lustrous, ingrown with the diagonally-attached quartzes (again, all doubly-terminated!). I had a big doubt when I got offered this down in Brazil that, for the size and aspect, it could be from Brumado. Yet, there are two characteristic Brumado-style magnesite crystals perched off the bottom-right hand face of the emerald. Also, to prove it further, there are a few 5mm, green, disc-shaped uvite crystals present (on the left , attached to the emerald; and another included inside the left tip of the upwards-pointing quartz crystal). Aside from a very clean (nearly invisible!) repair at about the 3/4-up point, it is pristine and complete all around with no damage. It is not gemmy, but it is definitely green - and 4 inches tall. A very surprising, unique style for a Brumado beryl, striking because it is just so different from the norm. Weight is 123 grams

The color is great, the lustre is top quality, the clarity is like a gem, totally clean and clear...you just could not ask for more in a classic Russian heliodor of this size. From a freak gem pod encountered in the late 1980s, these are modern classics but few are arou ndthe market these days having been absrbed into collections or (close your ears!) butchered for cuttting rough. When heat-treated, these turn into luscious blue aquamarine crystals which can be cut at a much higher price than heliodor gem rough goes for - henec the reason that there are fewer of the crystals every year. I know of many sold for the purpose of treating and cutting, sadly. Weight is 27 grams

This very pink, very gemmy morganite is from a small pocket collected in 1996. It is a large thumbnail, strictly speakin ga toenail or small miniature. It is MUCH better in person than the photos suggest, very bright and pink in color (not the typical pale hue of East Coast pink beryls). It is complete all around top and sides, contacted and flat on the bottom. A rare East Coast locality specimen! From the specialized Maine thumbnail collection of Jim Mann. (although a small miniature, this squeezes into a TN box when mounted diagonally).

WEIGHT= 650 grams This is one of only a dozen or so great pieces to be preserved from this most famous Aqua find of modern era! All went into major collections, and this is one of the few of those that may ever be available again. And, you know i normally dont get excited about big single gem xls. this thing GLOWS and has the juiciest deepest richest blue color chacteristic from the famous Medina pocket of 1997. Most folks consider this the most important find of gem quality aquamarine in a single pocket, since the 1940s find of the style of the "Pioneer Aqua" there. This piece doesn't COST six figures, but it is borderline: by which I mean that I could easily see a few other dealers putting a 100k tag on it, and not bat an eye. I just do not happen to NEED that price, in the amortization as I priced this collection. It is the kind of piece that, looking down the road, I can easily see as an investment in that it will be six-figs quite reasonably before too many years, when another collector enters the market and wants one of these baseball-bat-styled gem crystals for a major collection. In fact, I have seen a similarly-sized piece in the mid-six figure range this year from one other source - a slightly fatter, but shorter specimen from the same group of the original find. There just isn't anywhere else to go to get one, and they are "crown jewels" of any highest-tier gem collection, so the price and value can only go up with time. I would not say this for any big aqua, but the Medinas have a special internal vibrance and color to them and are recognized universally as being a quality and rarity above the normal big aqua single. Despite the size, one wonders if there are compromises being made to obtain such a large Medina aqua here: the answer is NO. The quality is every bit as good as what you can ever hope to get from the find; they remain uniquely recognizable in the beryl world as being from a unique and special pocket; the history and pedigree are good; and the piece is just plain impactful. The strength (and the problem) with the material from this find is that it is all gemmy and thus intrinsic gem rough value is very high: so the good part is that makes them beautiful. The flip side is that this makes them "cutters" of obvious and easily realized value to the miners. Most specimens WERE cut at the time of discovery, in fact.. Thus, Wayne Thompson, when he bought the specimens from the pocket in Brazil , had to pay gem rough prices for them by carat weight (5 carats per gram). What Wayne bought is what was saved from destruction and use in the gem trade. They cut big, beautiful stones. Few survived for our market, and a certain percentage of those have even been cut since for the large rough in them. This one was one of two pieces sold to Ed David the year they came out. I just cannot say in words how much this gemmy monster DOMINATES a showcase with color and intensity. Especially when lit from above, it glows like a fiber-optic cable. The price, by the way, translates into the low $20's per carat, and for this quality of cutting or carving rough , this is not a bad intrinsic valuation at all. I nfact, it is a very high percentage of the specimen value compared to most gem crystals in cutting vs. specimen valuations. Comes with custom engraved lucite base, for easy display.