We’ve all been there – on the jewelry merry-go-round, spinning from store to store, getting nowhere. Diamonds, gold, and platinum swim before your eyes, but you can’t find that particular just-right piece you had in mind. It’s enough to make you give up and just buy another Keurig™.
It’s tempting, I know- that parcel of diamond melee for sale on Ebay. It’s just exactly the right price for your budget and the size is pretty close, the quality listed is acceptable to you. Perfect, right? Well, maybe. Consider the benefits of letting your jeweler source diamond and gemstone melee, side stones, and matched […]
We have a seen a rash- an epidemic, really- lately of loose center stones coming in for repair. The vast majority of them have not been HCJ pieces (I say this to be generous, in actuality none of them have been HCJ pieces) and it has been an education to examine other work and determine […]
Paraiba. Padparascha. Merelani. These monikers denote special colored gemstones- and often special gemstones mean extra special expensive price tags. So what’s the skinny on these denotations? Where do they come from and do they affect prices?
