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Triangular-Shaped Pink Tourmaline - FJ.6931
Origin: Afghanistan
Medium: Tourmaline-Gold
Additional Information: Seoul
$4,400.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
This Gemstone Has Been Set in a Modern
18
Karat Gold Ring. Weight 7.5 carats
Tourmaline's name comes from the
Singhalese
word "turmali," which means, "mixed."
Bright
rainbow collections of gemstone
varieties were
called "turmali" parcels. Tourmaline,
occurring
in more colors and combinations of
colors than
any other gemstone variety, lives up
to its name.
There is a tourmaline that looks like
almost any
other gemstone. Many stones in the
Russian
Crown jewels from the 17th Century
once
thought to be rubies are actually
tourmalines.
Perhaps this is why this gemstone is
said to
encourage artistic intuition: it has
many faces
and expresses every mood. Tourmaline
is also of
interest to scientists because it
changes its
electrical charge when heated. It
becomes a
polarized crystalline magnet and can
attract light
objects. This property was noticed
long ago
before science could explain it: in
the
Netherlands, tourmalines were called
"aschentrekkers" because they
attracted ashes
and could be used to clean pipes.
Tourmaline
occurs in every color of the rainbow
and
combinations of two or three colors.
The soft pink hue of this tourmaline
is one of the
most popular and highly prized of all
colors. In
fact, the Empress Dowager Tz'u Hsi,
the last
Empress of China, loved pink
tourmaline so much
that she bought almost a ton of it
from a mine
far away in California and ultimately
went to rest
eternally on a carved tourmaline
pillow. This
precious stone has been masterfully
cut into a
triangular shape. The reserved gold
setting
complements the natural hue of the
gemstone
without attracting attention away from
it.
Looking at this sparkling gemstone,
the unique
qualities and stunning beauty of
tourmaline
becomes evident.
- (FJ.6931)
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