On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate dark green tourmaline for your needs in our varied inventory. Each design created in this style — which was crafted with great care and often made from
gold,
yellow gold and
18k gold — can elevate any look. You can easily find a 17 antique edition and 256 modern creations to choose from as well. You’re likely to find the perfect dark green tourmaline among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 20th Century as well as those produced as recently as the 21st Century. For this particular piece,
.5 carat and
1 carat are consistently popular carat weights. There have been many well-made iterations of the classic dark green tourmaline over the years, but those made by
Polya Medvedeva Jewellery,
Atelier Molinari and
Vaibhav Dhadda are often thought to be among the most beautiful. A dark green tourmaline can be a stylish choice for most occasions, but
tourmaline rings, from our inventory of 162, can add a particularly distinctive touch to your look, day or night. See these pages for a
cabochon iteration of this accessory, while there are also
sugarloaf cabochon cut and
round cut cut versions available here, too. Most of our dark green tourmaline for sale are for
women, but there are 152 pieces available to browse for
men.
Very few gems dazzle quite in the manner that tourmaline does — vintage and antique tourmaline jewelry is a showstopper, and you can blame this on its wide range of spectacular colors. In fact, when Dutch traders brought stones back home from Sri Lanka that they couldn't identify, they called them "toramalli," a Sinhalese term for "mixed gems."
If you could transform the ocean to a gem, this is what it would look like: a clear, translucent azure, bordering on turquoise, hypnotizing in its depth and sparkling in the sun.
There is, in fact, such a stone, although it comes from deep in the copper-rich mountains of Paraíba, Brazil, and not from the oceans along its coast. Far rarer than diamonds, Paraíba tourmaline, a kind of tourmaline discovered only in the 1980s, is treasured as much for its extraordinary color as its scarcity, both of which contribute to its high value.
While diamonds generally sell for about $6,000 per carat, a carat of Paraíba tourmaline is likely to fetch about $16,000. Fans of the gem are said to include singer Taylor Swift and actress Zooey Deschanel, as well as some of the finest jewelers.
“No other stone can have a color as magnetic and captivating as Paraíba tourmaline,” says Vania Leles of VanLeles Diamonds, who combines the stone with diamonds and other gems in several of her designs.
You don't have to stop at Paraíba tourmaline jewelry — on 1stDibs, find the most extraordinary antique and vintage tourmaline rings, tourmaline and diamond earrings and other accessories.