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Please help me critique a diamond. I'm SO green at this!!
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Re: Please help me critique a diamond. I'm SO green at this!
GIA/AGS do not grade fancy cut stones with the exception of AGS does do princess cuts. So any "grading" you see on a marquise
is going to be something some jeweler gave it and may vary widely.
Marquise are usually not that popular...I'm surpise because they seem like they are flying off the shelf!
GIA/AGS do not grade fancy cut stones with the exception of AGS does do princess cuts. So any "grading" you see on a marquise
is going to be something some jeweler gave it and may vary widely.
Marquise are usually not that popular...I'm surpise because they seem like they are flying off the shelf!
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Re: Please help me critique a diamond. I'm SO green at this!
Well... I just ordered my ring through Blue Nile. I spoke at length with one of their reps, who *claims* she had someone from their warehouse review the particular stone. Her e-mail response was: "Thank you for your patience while I waited to receive the visual results you requested. The vault has determine that the diamond we discussed is eye clean. The inspector also noted that this is a beautiful diamond with a very good light performance ensuring you get a lot of sparkle and brilliance."
The stone is a GIA .51 carat Marquise stone, SI1, H in color, medium blue fluorescence, very good polish and symmetry, 60% depth and 56% table. It's a nice big 8.60 x 4.15 x 2.49mm stone with a 2.06 ratio. I got that mounted in a white 14k gold cathedral setting. The woman assured me I had 30 days to send it back, and it would be a painless process. She felt pretty strongly that I would not want to, however.
I know I should not have ordered sight unseen, but the stress of looking at diamonds every day, just to see all the good ones gone almost immediately was getting to me! Haha
As soon as I get it, I will be posting pics for all the experts here to help me grade it. Thank you all SO much for your help, and education!
Well... I just ordered my ring through Blue Nile. I spoke at length with one of their reps, who *claims* she had someone from their warehouse review the particular stone. Her e-mail response was: "Thank you for your patience while I waited to receive the visual results you requested. The vault has determine that the diamond we discussed is eye clean. The inspector also noted that this is a beautiful diamond with a very good light performance ensuring you get a lot of sparkle and brilliance."
The stone is a GIA .51 carat Marquise stone, SI1, H in color, medium blue fluorescence, very good polish and symmetry, 60% depth and 56% table. It's a nice big 8.60 x 4.15 x 2.49mm stone with a 2.06 ratio. I got that mounted in a white 14k gold cathedral setting. The woman assured me I had 30 days to send it back, and it would be a painless process. She felt pretty strongly that I would not want to, however.
I know I should not have ordered sight unseen, but the stress of looking at diamonds every day, just to see all the good ones gone almost immediately was getting to me! Haha
As soon as I get it, I will be posting pics for all the experts here to help me grade it. Thank you all SO much for your help, and education!
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Re: Please help me critique a diamond. I'm SO green at this!
Well, I just got the ring. I am *thrilled!* with the quality of the stone. It's totally eye clean, and has (to my untrained eye) amazing light performance. The sparkle when I rotate it in the sun is really awesome. I promised y'all pics, and here you go. The pictures really do not do the stone justice.
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Well, I just got the ring. I am *thrilled!* with the quality of the stone. It's totally eye clean, and has (to my untrained eye) amazing light performance. The sparkle when I rotate it in the sun is really awesome. I promised y'all pics, and here you go. The pictures really do not do the stone justice.
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