[Jewelry making - Article 00379] - Re: [Orchid] Legacy of Old Diamonds...

[richard hart]

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>     The day I become so money-hungry that I fail to provide full
>     disclosure of an item to my customers, many of whom ARE friends,
>     is the day I hang up my torches and microscopes.

    I believe that the discussion about the concept of disclosure had
    transgressed from legal concepts to protect the consumer from fraud,
    to moralistic-ethical-inky-dinky when the subject is about provence
    of a diamond. Information so as to not be liable for illegally
    procuring diamonds is one thing. How much info to pass on regarding
    what cooties are inhabiting a stone seems like belief in voodoo. 

    Hypothetically, there is a jewelry store robbery, stones are fenced,
    your supplier buys them from someone claiming they were part of an
    estate, you buy them and sell them not knowing they were stolen,
    your karma is what? Your beautiful ruby belonged to some one in Burma
    who was mugged or killed for that stone, you don't know the story,
    how now brown cow. 

    You might live in a house that a murder occurred in, owned a used
    can that was involved in a hit and run, ect. Holding a diamond
    hostage to some story about who owned it or what happened does not
    seem fair to an innocent diamond that had no active part in who owned
    it or what circumstances transpired. 

 Richard Hart

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