[Jewelry making - Article 00243] - Re: [Orchid] Diamond developments

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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    Dave, The reality is that synthetic diamonds will not impact the
    natural diamond market pricing in any way.  Historically, no
    synthetic material has impacted the pricing of natural material, with
    perhaps the exception of amethyst (and in that case it is only
    because the price of natural amethyst to begin with was too cheap to
    bother paying for testing).  The two markets are simply not related. 
    Since synthetics can  be identified as such, they are marketed as
    synthetic.  Man tends to value natural products in the jewelry field
    much higher than the synthetic because they are a "natural" product
    and the amount of material that can be found is considered limited. 
    You might want to note that in the 1950's when the Linde company
    began producing Linde synthetic star sapphires (star sapphires that
    had all the properties of natural with much more "perfect" stars) the
    interest (and price of) natural star sapphires went up significantly,
    simply because of people's awareness being raised about the existence
    of such stones. 

Daniel R. Spirer, 
GG Spirer Somes Jewelers 
1794 Massachusetts Ave 
Cambridge, MA 02140 
617-491-6000
spirersomes AT earthlink.net 
http://www.spirersomes.com


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