It’s 5:45PM. I’m looking out on the open Atlantic, 15 minutes from downtown Portland. It’s July 6. The sun is low in the west. The land before me is a lush green after a week of rain (we needed it). The ocean is deep blue, the sky is hazy with a touch of pink, and an even slighter hint of pink at the horizon.
I look back at the ring and the color pink comes back to me. It’s not like the pastel sky. This is pink, pure pink, pink on steroids. This is a color that reaches out, grabs you by the lapel and pulls you in. It’s a color shade that insists you engage with it. As a jeweler, I will admit I’ve never seen a pink gem with this color intensity. Buy this ring, acquire this, own this ring and the question becomes do you own it or does it own you?
We suggest this color will transform your relationship with all of the jewelry you possess. You will feel differently, in a good way, every time you slide this ring on. Whenever you go out into the world this ring is humming, this ring is singing, this ring is a chorus on stage with one hundred voices – that’s the strength of this color pink. I wish, in the thousands of gems cut in Maine tourmaline, that we had one that spoke in this soprano’s highest note. We’ve produced many exquisite pink gems, none, though, as pure as this.
The ring is hand made. On the north and south ends are rams head swirls. Beneath the center on the inside of the ring, next to the finger are small Moorish design patterns.
It’s now a day later at 3 o’clock, overcast skies, it’s raining, the light coming in through the windows, passing through the gem, casting pink light on the fine Moorish detail inside. On the east and west sides of this ring a total of 24 diamonds flow down either side of a gold “V”. Twenty-six full-cut, high white diamonds halo around the center pink tourmaline gem. A yellow gold rim divides the center from the surrounding diamonds. Sits low to the finger for comfort. If you are the one who chooses this ring be prepared to talk about the color of the gem because you will be asked many times…it’s a rare color.
The Cross Tourmaline Firewall. We sell Maine tourmaline exclusively, except when an exceptional World gem comes along. It may be a rare color, exceptional cutting, or a combination of the two. In either case, we clearly identify it’s non-Maine origin and document it on the tag, on the sales slip, and in its appraisal documentation. This is an approximately 2.68 carat pink tourmaline likely from Africa or Brazil (not Maine).
