DT polychrome Tourmaline with Lepidolite (Elling Coll.)

Item Description

The famous Golconda Mine of Brazil has produced a stunning array of tourmalines in widely different colors and crystal forms. This striking CABINENT crystal is certainly different, than most tourmalines you will see! The lustrous, translucent, well-striated, polychrome tourmaline is doubly terminated and one side has a dramatic, preferential sheath of yellowish-tan lepidolite. Most of the tapered crystal is sea-green with zones of pleasing cranberry-red, especially at the pyramidal termination. This termination also has a highly unusual, planar extenstion of tourmaline. The fatter, lustrous, pinacoidal termination is a gorgeous, bluish-purple. The UNRETOUCHED backlit photo highlights the translucency and sea-green color saturation of the body. The minor chipping to the lepidolite and trivial edgwear to the planar extension at the pyramidal termination are noted, but are certainly not a detraction to this striking, large crystal. This is undoubtably one of the more unusual and very showy doubly terminated, polychrome tourmalines you will see from this historic locale. Older material dating to the 1960s or 70s. 132 grams. Ex George Elling Collection.