Unusual intaglio - reverse watermelon tour

[randazzo1]

This bracelet has me stumped. It’s a mix of low k gold (12 or so) and silver. It has rubies and seed pearls. The mystery is the center stone - it’s a reverse watermelon tourmaline with intaglio style engraving on both sides (its open on the bottom) - which would be fine - except there are two unnecessary holes drilled in the tourmaline (if you look close). Obviously the tourmaline was harvested from something else - I want to know what? I found a roman intaglio w one hole in it - anybody know if that was common?

 

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[randazzo1]

Another interesting issue - the florets are a much higher karat - 16k

 

[A2coins]

Wowza somebody was sad to lose that thing and somebody mad the Husband lol