Archive for May, 2010
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
For a very special gift for Father’s Day or perhaps an anniversary, consider this striking one-of-a-kind man’s ring, set with a gorgeous gold in quartz gemstone from the Eldorado Mine in Gympie, Queensland, Australia. You can easily see the dramatic eruption of pure gold in the white quartz matrix– simply stunning! I picked this gem […]
Tags: CAD/CAM, Eldorado Mine, Father's Day, gold-in-quartz, Gympie, JewelSmith, Sierra Nevada
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I did a gemological consultation for a young man who had purchased a diamond solitaire from a diamond merchant’s Ebay site. He was able to win a diamond auction and wanted my opinion of the stone. I looked over the stone first before asking him about the price paid, the […]
Tags: AGS, Blue NIle, diamond auction, Ebay, EGL, GIA, GRA, HRD
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
My mission this year at Tucson included re-establishing some of my connections to the fire agate community– last year I finished this fire agate ring which has been drawing major compliments, so I figured it's time to try a few new pieces in our market. Over my three decades in the gem business, it's been […]
Tags: Bigfoot, Deer Creek, fire agate, Guy Paul, Howard Imboden, Larry Gray, One Track Mine, Safford, The Brotherhood of the Stone, Van Dusen pit
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
Last Fall, we were contacted by a long time customer whose daughter had a real problem. Her daughter, Kirstyn, was engaged to be married September 2010. Kirstyn and fiance Alastair, a British citizen, were working in the Cayman Islands where they had a local jeweler make a custom engagement ring using her one carat family […]
Tags: CAD/CAM, Custom Design, Engagement Ring, family diamond, Mardon Jewelers
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