These butterflies are limited. Our collection is carefully curated using everything we’ve learned about tourmaline in the last 100 years. We choose with an expert’s eye and the soul of a poet.
Item#: G4464
Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold
Gem: World Watermelon Tourmaline
Measurement: 23mm x 17mm overall
Chain: 18″ 14K Yellow Gold
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Our butterflies are carved from world watermelon tourmaline, tourmaline found in various locations throughout the world. Most tourmaline comes from gems with a pink crystalline core and a green outer perimeter, although sometimes colors are reversed. Each tourmaline wing-set is delicate, light, and airy.
An inevitable first question that comes up is, “Do you make these with Maine tourmaline?” The answer is no. Fifty years ago it would have been possible, material for wings was available from Maine in the 1970’s. It’s long gone. In gems, when something is available, go for it. Just do it, because if you wait…it will be too late.
These world tourmaline butterflies are the prettiest we’ve seen. The guy who makes them understands living fairies. He absolutely knows how to cut, blend, match. He knows where to put and place colors, how much pink and how much green. I would love to have these butterflies in my garden.
These are world butterflies made from the world’s most magical gem, tourmaline.
I grew up on a farm in Maine. On our side of the dirt road, we had 40 acres. On the other side they had 40 acres. My bedroom was on the second floor of our farmhouse. Out the northwest window, across the field, was a horse farm and race training facility where I could see cowboys breaking and training horses in their corral an eighth of a mile away. Our fields were filled with grasshoppers, crickets, and whippoorwills. In August every year the butterflies would molt. We had four types of butterflies, a yellow Swallowtail, orange Monarch, orange Viceroy, and black Swallowtail. Blackberries would ripen, the fields filled with
wildflowers, and butterflies were everywhere. When we were little, we had butterfly nets and chased them, as we got older, we became more casual about nature and accepted butterflies as part of the landscape. In truth, in our teens we hardly noticed, they be
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