unusual watermelon Tourmaline

Pederneira Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Small Cabinet, 9.2 x 3.4 x 1.8 cm
Start Time: 05/21/2009 5:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/28/2009 6:15:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed

Item Description

A striking, very interesting, Pederneira watermelon tourmaline. Most of the specimen is a very pleasing teal-blue, with a cranberry core at the base and olive-green at the termination. The jagged termination is heavily etched on one side and the sideways crystal looks like a bullet impaled in the side of the tourmaline body. A very unusual and facinating Pederneira tourmaline, that is essentially pristine. The lower, fractured, bent, sidecar crystal has a broken, but healed termination. Valued at $1500. 69 grams

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