I thought I would update you guys on my quest for an appraiser. The items came back lower than I expected, but they did appraise for more than the agreed upon price for both items. So on that note, I can''t complain.
I had gone to several places, and nobody wanted to say what both stones were. One is mine, and one is my mothers. There were places in which I went to, and I would show the smaller of the two, and pending on what they said on that, I would then show them the larger of the two.
So what in the world was it that I never said what it was and what was the magical inclusion?
They are both tourmalines, and nobody disputed that except for one place in which I think that there was something wrong with her equipment, and even she said it was tourmaline for sure. Nobody would say what type of tourmaline it was though. The one place was a little snobby, and I could tell he never louped the thing.
Had these people louped it, they would have seen what appears to be inclusions of tenonite. In laymans terms, CuO2 or cupric oxide needles were visible in a laminar direction. Nobody I know of understands the LMHC definition of these things, and I looked that up. I also went as far as to get in touch with GIA and ask for some imagery for inclusions in tourmaline that are tenonite. The reference desk said that they did not know of anything that was a tourmaline that had tenonite in it except for the copper bearing or "paraiba" tourmalines.
I ordered 2 back issues of Gems and Gemology in which they had micrographs of the inclusions I was trying to confirm. I think what I saw under the loupe was better, but there were consistencies with what I was saying, and what GIA has published in other articles. There is no other indicolite or verdalite that contains tenonite. The only tourmaline that I could find that contains that are the famed paraiba''s.
I have an appraisal on each item from a GG. The smaller of the 2 stones is a little over 5 carats, and the larger of the 2 is a little over 8 carats. When you see them in diffused ambient light, they do have a flurescence to them. Mom''s is a light pool water color, and mine is more on the green side. However in the right light, mine looks like a slightly green pool water color.
In flourescent light, mine does show some strong flurescent blue undertones pending the bulbs color temperature. Under halogen lighting, it''s more of a yellowish green. The crown will appear a more electric green under stronger quartz halogen lights. Mom''s doesn''t have quite as strong of a pleocrhoism, but it can exhibit a little bit of green under the right lighting conditions-however blue is the dominant color in hers from my observation.
The stones were disclosed as being from Mozambique, and based on what I can find, I have no reason to doubt that. They are in fact copper bearing and stated as "paraiba". It''s not the super intense colors like you see from Brazil, but it is a lovely color and it is quite distinctive.
Now if I could only find my AutoCAD disk so I can model a generic shank so I could pencil in all the other details, I could get a wax model going for her!
I had gone to several places, and nobody wanted to say what both stones were. One is mine, and one is my mothers. There were places in which I went to, and I would show the smaller of the two, and pending on what they said on that, I would then show them the larger of the two.
So what in the world was it that I never said what it was and what was the magical inclusion?
They are both tourmalines, and nobody disputed that except for one place in which I think that there was something wrong with her equipment, and even she said it was tourmaline for sure. Nobody would say what type of tourmaline it was though. The one place was a little snobby, and I could tell he never louped the thing.
Had these people louped it, they would have seen what appears to be inclusions of tenonite. In laymans terms, CuO2 or cupric oxide needles were visible in a laminar direction. Nobody I know of understands the LMHC definition of these things, and I looked that up. I also went as far as to get in touch with GIA and ask for some imagery for inclusions in tourmaline that are tenonite. The reference desk said that they did not know of anything that was a tourmaline that had tenonite in it except for the copper bearing or "paraiba" tourmalines.
I ordered 2 back issues of Gems and Gemology in which they had micrographs of the inclusions I was trying to confirm. I think what I saw under the loupe was better, but there were consistencies with what I was saying, and what GIA has published in other articles. There is no other indicolite or verdalite that contains tenonite. The only tourmaline that I could find that contains that are the famed paraiba''s.
I have an appraisal on each item from a GG. The smaller of the 2 stones is a little over 5 carats, and the larger of the 2 is a little over 8 carats. When you see them in diffused ambient light, they do have a flurescence to them. Mom''s is a light pool water color, and mine is more on the green side. However in the right light, mine looks like a slightly green pool water color.
In flourescent light, mine does show some strong flurescent blue undertones pending the bulbs color temperature. Under halogen lighting, it''s more of a yellowish green. The crown will appear a more electric green under stronger quartz halogen lights. Mom''s doesn''t have quite as strong of a pleocrhoism, but it can exhibit a little bit of green under the right lighting conditions-however blue is the dominant color in hers from my observation.
The stones were disclosed as being from Mozambique, and based on what I can find, I have no reason to doubt that. They are in fact copper bearing and stated as "paraiba". It''s not the super intense colors like you see from Brazil, but it is a lovely color and it is quite distinctive.
Now if I could only find my AutoCAD disk so I can model a generic shank so I could pencil in all the other details, I could get a wax model going for her!
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