This beautiful Aqua cluster came to me via an estate sale. It was mined in the late nineties, back when production was greater and quality was better. It's composed of dozens of individual ice blue aquas with silvery-gold muscovites in contrast. There are two pale to pinkish fluorite crystals along the left side. I really enjoy the variety of crystal size, ranging from 1 cm to 8 cm long. It exhibits a stunning lack of any damage, with the only exception being a rough upper left edge of a broad crystal, that is positioned on the very edge of the specimen. It displays several different ways, the rough edge is easily positioned so it is invisible. These large, gemmy Aqua specimens have become very scarce on the market. A dealer I showed this too who goes to Pakistan claimed pieces like this one are in Peshawar, with an asking price of $30,000 right now. It's a stunning piece.

TOURM47 - Tourmaline Var. Tri-color Elbaite "scepter"
$ 3500.00 (=~ £ 2826.43) SOLD NET
Pederneira Mine, Sao Jose da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
small cabinet - 6.4 x 1 x 1

This gorgeous Tourmaline is so ideal, it's what everyone looks for in a tourmaline crystal. It's 99% facetable, so the crystal glows a beautiful shade of green and blue. It has a long slender length wtih a bright pink stem. This was part of Luis Menezes collection for years, he got it from Jon Das Mosas. The termination is trigonal and complex at the very tip, the body is pristine, even the stem is terminated. There is one face where the green part wraps around the pink stem where there is rough underside edge, instead of a re-healed edge. It's technically a tri-color double terminated scepter. It weighs 11.83 grams. 

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