Elbaite "pillars"

Item Description

This hefty and unusual cluster of large, fat tourmaline we call the "pillars" because it looks like two pillars holding up an ancient middle eastern temple. It features a large stalk of highly lustrous tourmaline opn the leading edge, with a crazy-gemmy tip. Backing it up is a thick, almost cylindrical crystal, that reaches above the gem termination by a hair. Both are contacted on the bottom, and the larger one is contacted atop, making for a matte termination on either end (the crystals grew in a pocket to the full extent possible, in other words, culminating and microcrystallizing at either end where it grew against something flat). Again, the lead crystal is very gemmy in its upper portion and from the front you see a fine termination. UNUSUAL!!! Valued perhaps around $2000 but it is hard to say. We have not seen a tourmaline quite like this. In person, its quite obvious how bizarre, and beautiful, the piece is. Also it is a lot of unrepaired Afghani tourmaline for a price!