Elbaite

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Old-time Cruziero tourmalines from the 1960s and 1970s, besides being beautiful and gemmy, were often very unusual. This striking specimen certainly fits the unusual, but very showy, category. The two tourmalines look like a capitol "T" or cross. Both crystals are doubly terminated, highly lustrous and striated and have deep green, translucent to opaque bodies. All of the terminations appear to be lightly etched and then overgrown with pink tourmaline. The "stem" was bent by pocket forces. Its single crystal base is heavily etched and the crystal diverges upward into many smaller tourmalines near the slanted "cap" or crossbar. The cap is also slightly bent and part of the crystal is very gemmy. This is a classic, old-time, highly unusual, but aesthetic floater tourmaline from this renowned locale. Ex. Duncan Elliott Collection.