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Gem bi-colored Tourmalines
- Paprok Mine, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
- Small Cabinet, 5.9 x 1.2 x 0.9 cm (Largest)
- Start Time: 09/15/2013 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 09/19/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A "gem" of a two-piece deal! Two, beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, bi-colored, tourmalines have a smattering of pink at their bases, gorgeous, gemmy, bottle-green, mid-sections and pretty pink, complex, pyramidal terminations. The tall crystal is doubly terminated, nicely accented with lepidolite crystals and is nearly pristine, with only very trivial edge wear to the lower termination and a broken tip to a side car crystal above the lepidolites. The smaller crystal has unusual and striking termination form, with the pink cascading down one edge. The end of the pink is broken here and the green on the other side is dinged. Classic Paprok tourmalines. This is a fine lot. 15 grams total mass. 10 and 5 grams each.