Things that a Jewelry Loupe can tell you:

With time and effort, you will start enjoying using the jewelry loupe – not just the playing-with-it part, but also the amount of information a jewelry loupe gives you. A seasoned professional in this jewelry business, using a jewelry loupe, can tell you if a gemstone is natural, a synthetic, or a piece of glass and if it is natural, then make out characteristic flaws – inclusions and blemishes, pertaining to the gemstone. Read the rest of this entry »

All right, let’s get down to jewelry business. You are examining a gemstone that interests you for flaws and in doing so you need to use an instrument called a Jewelry Loupe. Read the rest of this entry »

When you are looking for a worthwhile purchase in gemstones and jewelry, take it as a rule of thumb that the ignorant and uninformed buyer will eventually be taken to the cleaners. So the only way to take the gamble out of the gemstones and jewelry purchase is to familiarize yourself – and gain knowledge of gemstones and experience in doing so. These are the only two things that count – money and reputation follow. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a good source of cheap diamonds, by which I mean cheap diamonds and cheap gemstones below or near dump value. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven days of the week, 365 days of the year, local newspaper carries classified ads, which, among other things, are with reference to sale of jewelry. Some of the people who place these ads in the Classifieds can be classified as totally desperate guys who will take almost anything that sounds reasonable (to them), while the others are those who are not ready to be the least bit reasonable, who think they have, like, forever to sell their stuff and will not take a dime less than what they think is the price they should get. However, the twist in the tale is that Read the rest of this entry »