Did you know that the United States is known for two important sources of tourmaline? It can be found in Maine and San Diego, California.
This 18K yellow gold kaleidoscope titled “Colors of Maine” features 71.74 total carats of Maine tourmaline and 60.05 total carats of Maine quartz.
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Colors of Maine
GIA Alumni Derek Katzenbach is a custom jeweler, stone cutter and artist. It took him over a year to cut hundreds of Maine tourmalines to create this award-winning piece. Learn more about this one-of-a-kind kaleidoscope and the inspiration behind it.
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Colors of Maine
GIA Alumni Derek Katzenbach is a custom jeweler, stone cutter and artist. It took him over a year to cut hundreds of Maine tourmalines to create this award-winning piece. Learn more about this one-of-a-kind kaleidoscope and the inspiration behind it.
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Faces of Eternity
This hand-carved skull is named Mr. Peanut Butter and Chocolate Skull, inspired by the peanut wood it was carved from. Peanut wood is a popular carving material with an interesting origin. Its journey began over 65 million years ago when rivers carried pine driftwood out to sea. Clams attached themselves to and fed on the wood, creating peanut-shaped boreholes that filled with white clay. Over time silica replaced the wood, transforming driftwood into petrified wood.
This skull sits on a gold vermeil “spine” and obsidian base.
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Faces of Eternity
Peruvian artist and carver Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio spent an entire year designing and creating this piece of art. Dive into his studio in Lima, Peru to watch this masterpiece come to life from paper to sculpture.
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Faces of Eternity
Peruvian artist and carver Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio spent an entire year designing and creating this piece of art. Dive into his studio in Lima, Peru to watch this masterpiece come to life from paper to sculpture.
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Eyes of Brazil
These agate slices are all cut from a single geode found in 2014 by soy farmers tilling their field in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It took 12 days to saw each slice and over a year to polish all 16 slices.
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Eyes of Brazil
Sit back and enjoy the story behind these stunning agate slices. Hear about their journey from Brazil, to Tucson, Arizona, to GIA’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California.
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Eyes of Brazil
Sit back and enjoy the story behind these stunning agate slices. Hear about their journey from Brazil, to Tucson, Arizona, to GIA’s headquarters in Carlsbad, California.
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Symphony in Gemstones
"Symphony in Gemstones” features miniature hand-carved instruments in a variety of gem materials including tourmaline, turquoise, tiger’s eye, onyx, rose quartz and many more.
This violin was created from tourmaline, which comes in a variety of colors but is best known for the pink variety called rubellite.
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Symphony in Gemstones
This piano is grand for any occasion. This piece features polished black onyx, a white quartz keyboard and individual gold strings.
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Symphony in Gemstones
Master goldsmiths shaped and twisted 14K yellow gold to create life-like buttons and pipes on this striking turquoise trumpet.
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The Enchanted Red Egg
Jim Grahl and Barry Marfleet spent two years creating this music box, which features 18K yellow, green and rose gold, platinum, silver, red and black enamel, ruby, mother of pearl, pearls and diamonds.
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The Enchanted Red Egg
When you press the ruby on top the egg opens to reveal a carousel of exotic animals that revolve and move up and down to music.
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Tourmaline Animal Carvings
Take a journey to the jungles of Costa Rica with this set of parrots carved from a colorful variety of Maine tourmaline.
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Tourmaline Animal Carvings
This pair of playful dolphins was created from green and purple tourmaline. They sit on a frosted base that was carved to look like waves in the ocean.
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Tourmaline Animal Carvings
Stoic on the hilltop, this deep cherry-colored rubellite tourmaline bison with onyx horns stands proud.
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Atlantis
The lost world of Atlantis — has been found.
This unique piece features green malachite coated with blue chrysocolla. To imagine how it grew, you have to turn it upside down because it is the ceiling of an underground cave.
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Amber
Amber is nature’s time capsule. This fossilized tree resin contains remnants of life on earth millions of years ago. In order to be given the name Amber, the piece has to be at least one million years old.
Amber might trap and preserve ancient life, including insects, leaves, even scorpions and occasionally lizards.
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Bahia
Within the halls of GIA this magnificent 426 pound rutilated quartz crystal sculpture is playfully referred to as ‘the world’s largest pendant'.
It weighs nearly one million carats and took more than seven years to create!
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Snake Bracelet
In a style popular during the Victorian era, 15K gold was woven to form the coils and the head of a snake, complete with rose-cut diamond eyes.
The entire coiled bracelet is 7.5x4 cm and dates back to circa 1845. Prince Albert gave Britain's Queen Victoria an engagement ring designed as a snake with an emerald-set head. She believed the snake represents eternal love.
