Tag: antique diamond
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Evolution
Roughly ten years ago I started to take my obsession with jewelry and gemstones a bit more seriously by starting to actively research and reading everything I could find online. It turns out that over ten years, things can evolve and change quite a bit. I had a guest blogger…
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Incoming Gemstones
Whoa! Gemstones ahoy! I got a couple of packages from a couple of collectors looking to consign items, and there are some really awesome gems, and a couple of finished jewelry pieces. Some of the stand outs include: 40+ carats of green garnets: tsavorite, demantoid, mint, including melee! 2+ carat…
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Evaluating a Neon Pink Red Mahenge Spinel
This week’s blog is an evaluation of a 3.21ct Mahenge spinel that I did for a client recently. The stone was brought in from Mayer & Watt, a wholesale dealer where the advertised MSRP is $5,256/carat. The following is a direct copy and paste of my email. Color: It is…
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TGP: Year Two
A lot has happened over the last year, and certainly in the last two! On a more personal note, I have moved from just outside of the Mojave desert where water is scarce to a 1800s farmhouse in the middle of thousands of acres of the incredible rolling hills of…
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Custom Red Burmese Spinel Halo Ring
I’ve been incredibly busy, to say the least! I actually took my first day off in three weeks renovating/decorating/etc the other day to exclusively work on jewelry stuff. I had been sorely missing it and really had a stack of things to get back on – gemstone photography, rough jewelry…
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Viva Las Vegas! JCK 2015 Part 3!
So. It’s the final day. I would have loved to stay in Vegas longer, but my daughter was already having a hard time with me being gone. I’d had a packed schedule for three days and wasn’t able to talk to her as much as I (or she) would have…
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A Month of Diamonds
I am an April baby. And…I don’t like diamonds. But, because it’s my birthstone and because of the social importance imparted on us and the significance of diamonds, they have still managed to play a influential part in my life. When I was thirteen, my mom gifted me with the tiniest diamond…
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Simple Diamond Necklace Design
For now, this seems as though this idea will just remain a concept rather than an actual item, seeing as how the diamond it was designed for was recently sold off. I don’t typically like to post completed sketches, but this one is so simple, I don’t think its anything…
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Exciting News!
I am adding an extra post this week to announce that I have opened up an etsy store! Now, I’m still working towards getting my own site with my own designs, but in the meantime, I really wanted to get some of the loose gemstones that have been collected over…
The Gemstone Project 