Tourmaline (rare find!)

near Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Small Cabinet, 6.2 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm; 169.03 ct
Start Time: 10/31/2021 12:30:00 am (CDT)
End Time: 11/04/2021 6:55:00 pm (CDT)
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Winning Bid: $1,660
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Item Description

This is an absolutely lovely bi-colored Elbaite Tourmaline crystal that that has a vibrant, variegated, translucent pink body with gemmy olive green tips. The piece actually consists of one main crystal and several other slender crystal in parallel or near-parallel growth. They displays a glassy luster with faint striations and the crystals have a rich, almost hot pink interior with bright olive, gemmy green caps at their terminations. There is small cluster of scintillating, 1 mm Muscovite or Cookeite crystals near the base on the backside. A very aesthetic, colorful and well composed Tourmaline from Brazil. From a small single pocket near this more famous mine, sometime in 2019.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$1,660 * 11/04/2021 6:47:19 pm (CDT)
$1,660 * 11/04/2021 6:47:19 pm (CDT)
$1,610 11/04/2021 6:44:10 pm (CDT)
$1,560 11/04/2021 6:38:10 pm (CDT)
$1,550 11/04/2021 6:38:10 pm (CDT)
$1,508 11/04/2021 6:31:25 pm (CDT)
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$1,400 11/04/2021 6:26:53 pm (CDT)
$1,350 11/04/2021 6:26:53 pm (CDT)
$1,300 11/01/2021 5:10:18 pm (CDT)
$1,250 11/01/2021 5:10:18 pm (CDT)
$1,140 11/01/2021 4:27:20 pm (CDT)
$1,090 11/01/2021 4:27:20 pm (CDT)
$1,053 11/01/2021 3:15:25 pm (CDT)
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$924 11/01/2021 6:12:02 am (CDT)
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$870 10/31/2021 8:45:41 am (CDT)
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$824 10/31/2021 7:22:30 am (CDT)
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$60 10/31/2021 5:35:46 am (CDT)
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$10 10/31/2021 2:05:05 am (CDT)
* Proxy Bid Battle: In the event of two customers inputting matching proxy bids, the leading bid goes to the earliest of the two proxy bids. Tie winners are shown in bold.