Archive for the ‘Gem Industry News’ Category
Saturday, July 16th, 2011
Want to own a piece of historical art jewelry? We are pleased to showcase this wonderful handmade Modernist brooch/pendant of 18k yellow gold set with diamonds and a fabulous red fantasy cut tourmaline weighing 10.05 carats, created by the brilliant lapidary artist, Bernd Munsteiner.
Tags: American Gem Trade Association, Atelier Munsteiner, Bernd Munsteiner, Modernist, Patrick Irla
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Yesterday, a young man, just graduated from dental school, came to the store to sell us a small batch of casting gold leftover from his casting classes. We tested his gold as 14K, then weighed and valued it for him. He left the store to get his identification so we could make the transaction, but […]
Tags: Gold Buying, Gold Spot Price, Kitco
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Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Recently, daughter Jenny and I spent a memorable Memorial Day weekend at the 2011 GIA International Symposium. This year, Symposium was divided into two tracks, one focused on current scientific research in the field of gemology, while the other concentrated on the future of business for the jewelry industry. This year’s keynote speaker was noted […]
Tags: AGTA, business substainability, Dhamani, Dr. Brian Nattrass, ethical source, Gallup, GIA Symposium, Harmony Metals, Pandora, Pawn Stars, Professional Gem Sciences, Sotheby, Steve Forbes, Van Cleef and Arpels, Wallace Chan
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Thursday, May 12th, 2011
This headline caught my eye in a recent email— the answer to this trick question is anyone! A newsletter by an insurance industry organization highlighted the fact that there are no federal or other governmental bodies setting qualifications for who may be a jeweler or a jewelry appraiser. A study by a related group also […]
Tags: AGS, AGTA, ASA, Certified Gemologist, Certified Gemologist Appraiser, feel good appraisal, GIA, Graduate Gemologist, Insurance Appraisal, NAJA
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Thursday, March 31st, 2011
We just appraised this beautiful bright yellow ~2 ct. round diamond for a client. She had inherited the stone, which was accompanied by an appraisal from a gemologist which described it as a “Canary Yellow” diamond, which implied but didn’t state specifically that the stone was natural-color. Our client said the diamond had originally been […]
Tags: Artificially Irradiated, Canary Yellow Diamond, Fancy Color Diamonds, Fancy Vivid Yellow, Gem Trade Laboratory, GIA, HPHT
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Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
These days, we buy a lot of jewelry, used as well as new. Today, I worked with a young lady, a bit down on her luck and on the rebound from a relationship that didn’t work out. She was looking to sell her white gold solitaire ring that was set with the one carat round […]
Tags: Built-Up Diamond, diamond grading report, GIA
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Saturday, January 8th, 2011
We follow the gold market pretty carefully these days since we buy gold on a daily basis. One of our resources is Kitco, a company that sells all forms of metals, and also offers daily market prices and other infomation and commentary about the metals market. Today’s posts at the Kitco website included this excellent […]
Tags: 10 tips for selling your gold, Harmony gold, Hoover & Strong, recycling gold, refining
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Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Our beautiful Pink Star Pendant, of 14k white gold set with a 1/5 ct. round natural pink diamond, accented with 3/4 ct. tw. of white diamonds, is yours for just $2995– that's $46,155,679 US dollars less than the price paid for the 24.78 ct. emerald cut pink diamond that just sold at the Sotheby's November […]
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The gem auction world is all a-twitter over this outstanding emerald cut diamond to be offered at the upcoming Sotheby's Auction, beginning November 16 in Geneva, Switzerland. Graded Fancy Intense Pink, the diamond is also unusually high in clarity, pronounced VVS2 by GIA. Described as pure pink with no secondary hues, the pre-auction estimate for […]
Tags: blue diamonds, Fancy Intense Pink, fancy pink diamond, Geneva, Jenny Sweaney, JewelSmith, Jim Sweaney, ModelMaster, natural color diamonds, pink diamonds, Sothebys
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
We'd like to thank all of you who voted Mardon the Best Jeweler in Riverside for the second year in a row! Your support and patronage makes our work most enjoyable and enriches our lives in many ways. Look for the Press Enterprise Reader's Choice magazine in the Thursday, November 11 issue. We like to […]
Tags: blu-ray laser, Press Enterprise, Reader's Choice 2010, stereolithography, Tucson Gem Show
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