1st row left to right：tourmaline, spess, tourmalineSparkliesLuver|1453811783|3981639 said:Love your box full of goodies!Wow. That's my kinda box too. I'd love to know more about them, if you have the time. The spess fits in nicely! Well done.
Well as mentioned above, the blue-pink rough comes from the renowned cutter Jeff White. He said he had only seen these kind of rough once in his career. I have done a lot of homework searching lovely colored tourmalines, so I would sincerely agree with what he said. In some rare occasions I have seen dark blue to purplish red tourmaline from Brazil, but not this lovely blue. Although the pink end is a little bit pastel, but the blue end alone can stand as the best example of Afghan tourmalines. The reason I grap the rough instead of a facet is because the facet price is way beyond my budget. But Jeff was very kind and was willing to bring down the price if I took the rough. So I just took it. I was planning to send the rough to a local cutter. But now it seems to me that staying as a rough would be a better idea. Maybe in the future I will cut it myself if I learn how to facetniter|1453917393|3982426 said:
And for the emerald, it comes from a local dealer. It is 2ct with a huge pavilion in order to save the weight I guess. And it is slightly oiled and not clean of course. The saturation is not well enough to define it as a good emerald. But I just couldn't resist the bluish green. And pricewise it is quite attempting. So I just took it. I forgot to mention that I am a super fan of green-blue color, so I have done a lot of homework searching and drooling over others' blue-green beauties. And this emerald just meet my expectations exactly.niter|1453917393|3982426 said:
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