I wish I had the money... >_<

I am curious, what is the best way to store gems? In a chest like in the movies, or individually? How fragile are they really? Like, can they chip, or are they rather hearty?

It greatly depends on the gems themselves. There's typically no wrong way to store a rock so long as you are aware what chemical compounds just might damage a gemstone. However, some stones are harder than others. If you had something like a big chest or box of diamonds and chrome diopsides, move and shuffle the chest enough or apply enough weight, and you may definitely begin to see scratches or outright chips on the softer stones. Generally finding some sort of flat, enclosed tray or small foam filled capsules are the common way to store stones, like a plastic or wooden box lined with cotton or foam, with a glass or plastic lay over to hold the stones in place to allow viewing. On that note, I will be thinking on making and selling display cases as well.

Are you sure this is the indicolite variety? It looks more like verdelite than indicolite. Maybe its just the lighting. Either way its beautiful nonetheless. :)

It is incredibly difficult to determine without a Refractometer, I've brought it to a few shops and none of them were able to come to a solid conclusion of what it is. The lighting brings out most of the greens in it, but under 'normal' spectrums of light, this stone just really pops with a rich blend of blue and green. For the buyer's sake if this stone ends up getting sold, when I can completely confirmed at a lab as Indicolite, it will be getting locked up in a personal vault, or likely end up with a quad digit price tag. Indies are pretty rare, especially at these sizes. Any tourmalines really that are this clean, at least.

Personally speaking, I spent -hours- gawking over this stone at its otherworldliness. It's truly just charming in all the ways. What frightens me most, to my eye, it looks exactly like one of those tip top notch deep sea green emeralds that only executives and class A celebrities wear. Its not out of the question that could be an emerald, but few would ever cut emerald as a typical tourmaline specific cut, as the crystal formations and cleavage of emerald might make select angles hell to work with, or tear the stone apart during the process.