[Jewelry making - Article 00930] - Re: [Orchid] Are they Rubies?

[The Doctor]

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>         'Kind of funny, though, that the technocrats answering most of
>     these questions seem always to have their own agendas (ie-send me
>     your stone for testing and it won't cost MUCH). 

    I don't recall anyone answering this thread asking anyone to send
    anything for any money. Did I miss one during the hurricane? 

>         I still offer to (probable) ID a ruby from a decent photo. 

    That's quite a back-track there, Cap'n kirk. You just went from "If
    you email me a photo I'm sure I'll be able to tell you what they
    are" to "I still offer to (probable) ID a ruby from a decent photo." 

>         I'll also do an emerald and also tell you if it's from America
>     or Africa on top of it. Color is the prime factor in colored
>     stones. 

    Trusting a low resolution photographic image, either scanned or from
    a digital camera of whatever quality, viewed on a computer monitor
    that is likely not calibrated would be foolhardy. Sure, African
    emeralds, colored by iron, not chromium, appear more bluish-green
    than the typically yellowish-green of American emeralds, but I
    certainly wouldn't put my, or anyone else's reputation at risk like
    that. Yes, I said somebody else's reputation. That somebody else
    could wind up selling a synthetic or simulant as natural on your
    advice. You may want to risk it, but no real professional would. 

James in SoFl

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