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4.8 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm. A DOUBLY-TERMINATED (naturally healed on the bottom end), super gemmy tourmaline from the Smale collection. It is pink at the two ends, and a bright grassy green in the middle; super luster, too. This fine crystal weighs 8 grams.
4.5 x 1.7 x 1.3 cm. An incredibly gemmy tourmaline crystal from the collection of Steve Smale. It has a super termination on top, with odd bits of pink color. Interestingly, the body of the crystal grades from a more spectral green at the top to teal at the bottom! Fine luster. Weighs 18 grams.
5.9 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm. What a fantastic tourmaline specimen. First, it is a very gemmy and lustrous bottle-green color. But what is really cool is that not only are both terminations intact (it is a floater), but at one end, what appears to be a pink sub-crystal pokes out to make this a sceptre - terminated, both the green part of the termination and the pink extension! Weighs 17 grams. This fine crystal came out of the collection of Steve Smale.
8.6 x 6.3 x 6.0 cm. A MAGNIFICENT and STUNNING cluster of large, polychrome tourmaline crystals from a RECENT find at Stak Nala, Pakistan. These gemmy and lustrous crystals grade upward from deep green to yellow-green to yellow to colorless to pink! The color variety in each crystal is dramatic, as is the variable size of the crystals! The tourmalines are beautifully complimented by well-placed clusters of snow-white, bladed cleavelandite. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
6.3 x 2.2 x 2.0 cm. A CLASSIC and RARE, doubly terminated, bent tourmaline from the famous Himalaya Mine. Tectonic forces during crystal growth caused these striking crystals to break, but the crystal healed and continued growth. This classic, for the Himalaya Mine, pink rubellite tourmaline is very gemmy and lustrous, is nicely accented by purple lepidolites and the lower portion of the crystal has a green interior. The terminations have a matte finish and this beauty is very nearly pristine, with only the slightest edge-wear on one termination. Ex. George Elling Collection. 48 grams.
5.5 x 1.6 x 1.6 cm. This is an OUTSTANDING tourmaline for Africa in general and for this locale in particular, from a small pocket found in the early 1990s after Gene Meieran and Wayne Thompson financed renewed specimen-mining at this classic old locality. This remarkably gemmy, pristine, un-repaired, and transparent crystal was best of the pocket for quality and was the one Gene kept for his role in the project. The tourmaline quality is incredible for the locality but it’s also quite a distinct color and pattern from Brazil, capped by the sparkling, accenting apatites to make a truly unique piece. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
12 x 9 x 7cm. This is a tourmaline cluster from the Pederneira Mine, worked recently between 1998-2005, now seemingly mined out for this material. It measures 12cm x 9 cm tall x 7cm deep and is an aesthetic cluster of several multicolored "watermelon" tourmalines perched on crystallized, contrasting matrix of cleavelandite (the white blades). The crystals are all terminated, including the one pointing to the right - it has a natural contact notch where another crystal grew into it, but is not broken or damaged at all. The colors, especially the multiple hues contrasted on the stunning, sparkling white matrix, are really well developed here.
8.5 x 6.2 x 4 cm. What you have here is a bright green fluorite crystal sitting beside a glassy, very dark green tourmaline crystal, which itself sits atop a green tourmaline of a lighter color. All sit on a bed of sparkly, bladed stark white albite.
1.6 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm. Here we have a beautiful single crystal of gemmy Rubellite Tourmaline with sharp, glassy faces and excellent cranberry color. There is a small area with a whitish zone running lengthwise in the crystal as well. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
4.2 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm. Though it does have one repair, this is a big, fine, fat Himalaya tourmaline crystal out of the collection of Ed Ruggiero. It has wonderfully rich bright pink color for most of its length, with green at one end. The crystal is technically DOUBLY-TERMINATED - at one end is a perfect termination, and the other is naturally-healed after having broken off naturally in the pocket. The weight of this beauty is 52 grams.
5.4 x 1.4 x 1.1 cm. A gently tapering gem tourmaline crystal from Paprok - a bright grassy green for most of its length, culminating in a pretty pink termination. That is mineral attachment you see on it, not damage - the crystal is complete and uncontacted. Weighs 13.6 grams.
4.5 x 1.1 x 0.8 cm. From the collection of Steve Smale, a strange DOUBLY-TERMINATED gem crystal of tourmaline, an intensely gemmy green color for the most part (with a good termination at that end), but with an unusual termination at the pink end consisting of dozens of tiny tiered sub-terminations. Complete, uncontacted, undamaged - weighs 7.25 grams.
13.3 x 6.5 x 4.8 cm. A STUNNING and DRAMATIC CABINET combination specimen from Paprok, Afghanistan. Two, parallel-growth, lustrous schorl crystals have striking, gemmy, indicolite-blue terminations! The schorls are beautifully and aesthetically accented by gemmy, water-clear, smoky quartz crystals and wrapped in snow-white albite. This is an outstanding, essentially pristine, complete all-around combo piece, with only minimal contacting at the base, on the back and out of sight from this famous locality.
3.1 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm. A classic Himalaya tourmaline: rich pink bottom with a fine, grassy green termination, with a flat, silky sheen. There is a very shallow depression on one side of the termination that appears to be a pocket damage that was naturally healed within the pocket. The crystal is complete and uncontacted around the sides, with good luster. It is naturally healed on the bottom, so technically has both terminations. Weighs 44 grams. Ex. Charles Hansen Collection.
7.9 x 7.5 x 5.9 cm. A slender tourmaline of 5.5 cm, very dark green for most of its length, but terminating in a blue cap. Its setting is gorgeous, combing snowy calcite, barite and quartz that wraps around the back of the tourmaline and frames it.
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