SOLD
GEM7-15
Tourmaline (Blue Cap)
Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, California, USA
Miniature, 5.6 x 5.1 x 4.1 cm
Ex. Klaus Neumann
SOLD
This piece is from the edge of the famous Blue Cap pocket in the 1970s, what we in San Diego called affectionately the greycap pocket. It is a faint blue in color a tthe termination, but really more a mix of pale green and lavender with a colorless zone atop that gives the illusions of the hint of blue. This piece is a very robust single crystal, complete all around but for a small ding on one corner. Part of the value of these pieces also lays in the intense pink core, which was traditionally often used for carving rough