Green Tourmaline and Citrine Ring, Seaman Schepps

Unique Elements
This ring features a cushion modified brilliant cut, which softens the rectangular shape with rounded corners, like a cushion. The cushion was the most popular cut for diamonds until the 20th century as it highlights the clarity of the stone, and the purity of color in this beautiful green gem enables the impact of this masterful cut.

Green Tourmaline Tourmalines come in a wide range of colors, from red, pinks and peach to green, yellow and blues. Emerald Green tourmaline is rare and was mistaken for emerald as recently as the 18th century. Unlike natural emeralds, which typically feature many inclusions, green tourmalines can be found with few natural flaws. Tourmaline is an October birthstone, as well as the 8th wedding anniversary stone.

Citrine Citrine, a yellow to orange variety of quartz, is rare in nature. A November birthstone, as well as the stone marking the thirteenth wedding anniversary, citrines are one of the most popular yellow gemstones. Often identified with the Victorian era, citrine’s use as a gem dates back to 300 B.C.

Cushion Cut The cushion cut, which can be both a modern or “old mine” cut is a square or rectangular diamond with softly rounded corners, like a cushion. Most colored gems as well as diamonds were cushion cut in the 19th century, and it is one of the best diamond cuts for retaining natural color, which is why it remains popular for colored stones to this day. The old mine cut has 58 facets where a modern cushion cut typically has 64 facets.

Seamann Schepps Established in 1904 in Los Angeles, Seaman Schepps opened on Madison Avenue in New York in 1934. Schepps was known as “America’s Court Jeweller” with clients including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor, and members of the Du Pont, Mellon and Rockefeller families Seaman Schepps passed on in 1972 and the house has remained one of the premier American jewelers.