On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate mint green tourmaline ring for your needs in our varied inventory. Every item for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using
Gold,
18k Gold and
White Gold. You can easily find a 4 antique edition and 21 modern creations to choose from as well. Making the right choice when shopping for a mint green tourmaline ring may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century, both of which have proven very popular over the years. For this particular piece,
4 Carat and
4.5 Carat are consistently popular carat weights. Creating a mint green tourmaline ring has been a part of the legacy of many jewelers, but those produced by
Merkaba,
Tamir and
Stambolian are consistently popular. A
cushion cut version of this piece has appeal, but there are also
oval cut and
round cut versions for sale. When shopping for a mint green tourmaline ring, you’ll find that there are less available pieces for unisex or
men today than there are for
women.
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.