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Bi-colored Tourmaline on Feldspar and Lepidolite
- Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
- Cabinet, 12.5 x 12.0 x 7.0 cm
- Start Time: 06/03/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 06/10/2010 6:33:38 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A 2.2 cm, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored, tourmaline is focal point of this dramatic and showy CABINET specimen from recent finds at Paprok. Pretty, pastel-pink with mint-green tipped tourmalines are scattered on the sculptural, knobby matrix of feldspar and lavender lepidolite. A bit of periphery wear and a couple of broken tourmalines are noted, but this remains a large, representative and excellent example of the species and locale. Classic Paprok material.