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Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald Buying Guide: How to Identify, Evaluate & Select These Gems (Newman Gem & Jewelry) |  | Author: Renee Newman
Publisher: International Jewelry Publications
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 187
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0929975413
Dewey Decimal Number: 553.84
EAN: 9780929975412
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Product Description
This guide helps buyers to evaluate these spectacular gems and it updates professionals on new treatments and sources of corundum and emerald. Using close-up photographs, the book shows how to make visual judgements about clarity, transparency, cut quality and brilliance. In addition, it helps you to understand lab reports and find appraisers and labs. You will also get tips on detecting imitations and synthetic stones. Let this guide provide the in-depth information you will need to be a smart buyer. Topics in this guide include: Quality evaluation; Gem treatments; Fakes and synthetics; Lab reports; Geographic sources; Appraisals; Gem cleaning & care; and, Savvy buying.
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An absolute "must-have" for anyone ready to expend the price to secure quality ruby, sapphire, or emerald jewelry March 10, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Now in a completely revised third edition, Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Buying Guide: How to Identify, Evaluate and Select these Gems is an in-depth buyer's guide to these precious stones. Chapters discuss the geographic sources of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds; their carat weight, shape and cutting style, how to judge them by their colors, how to judge their clarity/transparency, the relative merits of appraisals versus lab reports, how to discern imitations and avoid gem scams, how to determine whether these gems are synthetic or natural, and much more. An invaluable resource, accessible to readers of all backgrounds, and an absolute "must-have" for anyone ready to expend the price to secure quality ruby, sapphire, or emerald jewelry.
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