[Jewelry making - Article 00762] - Re: [Orchid] Are they Rubies?

[The Doctor]

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>         Wait til you work this stuff with your hands and eyes for the
>     40 years 


    Even most jewelers will take-in a piece with a diamond listed as "a
    white stone." Not especially good for insurance purposes, but most
    jewelers of my acquaintance, especially the ones who are lettered
    gemologists would never sight ID a gemstone, much less ID one from a
    photo. 

    Police and border guards who find illegal substances on search will
    list them as "a white powder" or "a suspected illegal substance"
    until those substances are laboratory-tested. No court or jury in
    the US can convict a person on a border guard's photographic
    evidence. I suppose you could be convicted leaving the US with such
    little evidence going to, say, Mexico, but who in their right mind
    would expect to make a profit by EXporting illegal substances to
    Mexico? 

    No matter if I've been working with gems for a thousand years, I'd
    be more than extremely hesitant to ID a ruby as, for instance,
    natural vs. synthetic by an emailed photo. But then again, I have an
    academic designator to uphold. 

James in SoFl

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