Colored Gemstones 4th Edition

Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9780990415275
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colored Gemstones written by Antoinette Matlins and published by Gemstone Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide, from gemstone expert and best-selling author Antoinette Matlins, is all you need to help you buy, collect, sell, care for--or simply enjoy--colored gemstones with confidence and knowledge. Easy to understand and practical, this updated and expanded edition explains what to look for and what to look out for!

Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0943763452
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colored Gemstones written by Antoinette Leonard Matlins and published by Gemstone Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchasing coloured gemstones can be a magical experience, filled with excitement and anticipation. But lack of information, error, or misrepresentation can make buying gemstones confusing, intimidating, overwhelming, and costly. With more varieties than ever before to choose from, including altogether new gems, revolutionary new cuts, and new ways to buy gems -- such as internet auctions and TV shopping -- there has never been a more exciting time to buy or collect coloured gemstones. But there are also new high-tech treatments and sophisticated frauds to look out for. Lack of information, error, or misrepresentation can make the thrill of buying a gem or piece of jewellery confusing, intimidating, overwhelming, and costly. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. To help you avoid the pitfalls and keep the magic, Antoinette Matlins, an internationally respected expert on buying gems, puts her insider knowledge to work for you in this easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide. Practical, comprehensive, and easy to understand, the guide offers in depth all the information you need in order to know what to look for and what to look out for, including: what qualifies as a 'gemstone'?; how to evaluate colour -- and its impact on price; deciding between a natural gem and an enhanced gem; coloured gemstone synthesis and treatment; what to ask when buying the stone; what to get in writing; how to get what you want within your budget; price guides for popular gems, opals, and synthetic stones; And much, much more!

Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colored Gemstones written by Antoinette Leonard Matlins and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Schumann
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gemstones of the World written by Walter Schumann and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1977 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the appearance, formation, physical properties and characteristics, mining, and cutting of precious, semiprecious, and synthetic gemstones.

Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0943763894
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gem Identification Made Easy (4th Edition) written by Antoinette Matlins and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: one person can accomplish big things.

Author : JUDITH. CROWE
Publisher : Herbert Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912217854
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gemstones written by JUDITH. CROWE and published by Herbert Press. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the treatments, imitations, pricing, cuts, sources, and appraisal of gems.Jewellers and designer goldsmiths, lapidaries and gem cutters, stone setters, gemologists, geologists, collectors and people who buy and sell jewellery at antique fairs and on the internet, this book is for anyone who has ever had a gemstone and wanted identification and information. Featuring a mix of gemstones and gem-set jewellery, it puts gems in context and contains historical context for those buying and selling antique and vintage gem-set jewellery, including details of the stones typically found in Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco settings.Packed with fascinating gemological details and up-to-minute data on more than 70 of the most exquisite gemstones, and written by leading expert, Judith Crowe, learn the common pitfalls in identifying stones and clarify areas of confusion and misidentification.

Author : Raymond W. Grant
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816543577
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition written by Raymond W. Grant and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely revised and expanded, this fourth edition covers the 986 minerals found in Arizona, showcased with breathtaking new color photographs throughout the book. The new edition includes more than 200 new species not reported in the third edition and previously unknown in Arizona. Chapters in this fourth edition of Mineralogy of Arizona cover gemstones and lapidary materials, fluorescent minerals, and an impressive catalog of mineral species. The authors also discuss mineral districts, including information about the geology, mineralogy, and age of mineral occurrences throughout the state. The book includes detailed maps of each county, showing the boundaries and characteristics of the mineral districts present in the state. Arizona’s rich mineral history is well illustrated by the more than 300 color photographs of minerals, gemstones, and fluorescent minerals that help the reader identify and understand the rich and diverse mineralogy of Arizona. Anyone interested in the mineralogy and geology of the state will find this the most up-to-date compilation of the minerals known to occur in Arizona.

Author : Antoinette Matlins, PG, FGA
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 094376386X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colored Gemstones 3/E written by Antoinette Matlins, PG, FGA and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated and expanded, COLORED GEMSTONES gives you all the information you need to buy, collect, sell— or simply enjoy—sapphires, emeralds, rubies and other colored gemstones with confidence and knowledge. With more varieties than ever before to choose from, including altogether new gems, revolutionary new cuts and new ways to buy gems—such as Internet auctions and TV shopping—there has never been a more exciting time to buy or collect colored gemstones. But there are also new high-tech treatments and sophisticated frauds to look out for. Lack of information, error or misrepresentation can make the thrill of buying a gem or piece of jewelry confusing, intimidating, overwhelming and costly. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. This practical, comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide provides all the information you need in order to know what to look for, and what to look out for, including: What qualifies as a “gemstone”? How to evaluate color—and its impact on price. Deciding between a natural gem and an enhanced gem ... and new glass-gemstone compositions. Colored gemstone synthesis and treatment. What to ask when buying the stone. What to get in writing. How to get what you want within your budget. Price guides for popular gems, opals and synthetic stones. Important information about buying on the Internet. ... and much more! Written by an “insider,” this easy-to-read guide is the “unofficial colored gemstone bible” for anyone who wants to get the most for their moneyand enjoy what they have purchased.

Author : David Federman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468464884
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Jeweler’s Consumer Guide to Colored Gemstones written by David Federman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since early 1989, a gem dealer I've known for years has been calling me every few weeks to brief me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's lucrative emerald market. The troubling gist of these calls is always this: There is a full-fledged turf war going on between that South American country's bustling drug and gem trades for control of its emerald ex port business. According to this dealer and several others, anywhere from two to four thousand emerald industry people, mostly miners and deal ers, have been murdered since 1980. No doubt the gem sector, itself never gun shy, has retaliated in full and in kind. After all, the two groups have banded together in an intermittent alliance against a common enemy-Communist guerillas-with results the CIA would envy. I mention this bloodshed because of something the gem dealer once said to me: "I bet you never think of what a gem has to go through to get to a jewelry store:' He's right. I tend to think of colored stones as things of beauty, not objects of gruesome power struggles between mining kingpins and drug lords. Can you blame me, or anyone with insider knowledge, if a gem sheds any connection with its past once sculpted by a cutter into the glittering mar vel we see in a jeweler's showcase? Like Odysseus listening to the sirens' song, we become victims of an aesthetics-induced amnesia.

Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9780943763316
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewelry & Gems, the Buying Guide written by Antoinette Leonard Matlins and published by Gemstone Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchasing gems and jewellery can be a magical experience, filled with excitement and anticipation. But lack of information, error, or misrepresentation can make the thrill of buying a gem or piece of jewellery confusing, intimidating, overwhelming, and costly. To help you to avoid the pitfalls and keep the magic, two internationally respected experts on buying gems and jewellery put their inside knowledge to work for you in this easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide. It is filled with practical advice and is designed to make it easy for you to have all the information you need to buy gems and jewellery with confidence.