[Jewelry making - Article 00623] - Re: [Orchid] The Role of GIA

[Peter W . Rowe]

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>        The GIA is not the first organization to attempt to defraud
>     non-insiders (AKA customers) by bending a jargon definition to a
>     common word just so that the public will not understand 

    Mr. White,  with all due respect, would I be correct in the
    assumption that you are not particularly versed or trained in jewelry
    or gemology, nor especially aware of the history of GIA? 

    Much of their origins were based on the attempt to get the
    professionals to all speak the same language, precisely because those
    pros  were making it so meaninglessly confused that fellow jewelers
    couldn't be sure what other jewelers or dealers were saying,  and at
    that time, the public was pretty much being told whatever the heck it
    took to sell whatever pretty stone a jeweler wished to move.  You
    imply that GIA is somehow defrauding or deceiving folks to their own
    purposes.   On the contrary, many of their efforts have been
    precisely the opposite, to define the terms used in easily understood
    and consistent ways just so that everyone COULD understand what was
    being said, both jewelers and public both.  The entire diamond
    grading nomenclature which you'll easily find the public and jewelers
    busily  using, were devised by GIA to replace the romantic, but
    highly subjective, inconsistent and variable terms in prior use.   
    While it's certainly true that people who've made no effort to learn
    the accepted nomenclature will be at a disadvantage when speaking on
    a subject,  the nomenclature is easily learned, consistent with
    itself, and not some trade secret only jewelers are allowed to know. 
     GIA is not the masons, with secret handshakes and sacred rites. 
    Their information is easily found by anyone with sufficient curiosity
    to look for it. 

    While there will always be dissent in nomenclature, and the english
    language being what it is, there will always be sometimes multiple
    definitions of a given word,  the simple truth is that GIA's efforts
    have, over the decades, made this field MUCH more comprehensible to
    both professionals and customers alike. 

Peter Rowe


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