Find your diamond
Find your jewelry
shape
carat
color
clarity

1967 diamond grade shows .95 carat grade A3. What does this mean? No 4 C’s listing or grading.

K

Kramercat

Rough_Rock
Joined
Oct 11, 2024
Messages
1
I just saw an old “appraisal” from the jewelry seller dated 1967 (from Kansas City, Kansas) that described the following: a European cut diamond, .95 carat, grade A3.

What is grade A3 mean?
 
Your guess is as good as mine!
 
Pic of the stone?
 
shoppingtelly.com

A3 diamonds

I have a diamond cluster ring in my basket but didn't catch what quality the diamonds were so before checking it out I wanted to know what grade they were, their their website wasn't any help so I rang CS and spoke to a very nice young man who said they were A3. I know they have their own unique...
shoppingtelly.com shoppingtelly.com
I1 and I2 with warmish color, is what that says.
 
maybe this old thread helps.. and would be nice to see a photo of it

A

Thread 'Diamond Experts--Triple A grade??? (from the 1960''s)'

Hey everyone!

I used this forum years ago when we were learning about diamonds for my engagement ring. Now, 3 married years later, I need to seek your expert information once again!

We are getting a diamond ring that is a family heirloom that my grandfather bought in the 60''s for my grandmother. Supposedly he paid a lot of money for this ring back then and the cert from the jeweler said something about Triple A grade. what does that mean? Anything? I know that that''s probably not used nowadays, but does anyone know what that would have meant back then? My husband is bringing...
 
Last edited:
Back in the bad old days, every Tom, Dick, and Harriett had his/her proprietary grading system. A lot of them declared color as AAA, AA, A or even AAAA. There were many systems and none of them related well to other systems. Frankly, few of them had little acquaintance with reality, although a few did.

One of the reasons the GIA grading system started with D as the highest color was to avoid any comparison or confusion with the multitudinous private grading systems already in existence.
 
Lol, one of the few benefits to being a geezer is having lived through some very interesting times. Although I am very old, compared to most of you, even I am not old enough to have been immersed in the multitudinous diamond grading systems. I am, however, old enough that I was taught about them by my instructors at GIA, back in 1975
 
Lookinagain said:
Maybe one of the vendors an answer this? @Texas Leaguer @Wink?

or maybe someone like @Karl_K ?
Click to expand...

Every once in a while a subject comes up that reminds me I'm not quite as old as crystallized carbon :)

As Wink says there was a crazy quilt of grading systems in the olden days, most of which had some combination of A's. Interestingly, I recall being taught that in one of the systems A was best and AAA was worst, which is counter to what most people would think. By design! Which leaves us little way to know if this was a clunker or a showstopper. A3 sounds suspiciously like Triple A though.

Sorry to be of zero help!
 
lulu_ma said:
Some clues on this thread...

M

Thread 'Rapaport A3 Diamond Specs changed to exclude faint fluorescence.'

Will someone explain the implications of this change. Not sure what it really means. Thank you!!
Click to expand...

This is very interesting but 1967 predates Rapaport. Martin was probably still a struggling diamond broker at that point!

It would be great to get more intel from @oldminer on the rap "A" system.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
GET 3 FREE HCA RESULTS JOIN THE FORUM. ASK FOR HELP
Jewelry Blog
PriceScope-Concierge-Ad
Find prime cuts.
Top