[Jewelry making - Article 00087] - Re: [Orchid] Synthetic & Simulant Gem Nomenclature

[Daniel Spirer]

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Greg,

>     To give you a little knowledge about me since you referred to me as
>     a laymen. 

    First of all I didn't refer to you as a layman, I just said that I
    had never heard the term used by anyone before except when talking
    to laymen. The problem though is that by referring to a "genuine
    treated stone" and a "genuine natural stone" is that you are
    confusing the customer. Both stones are natural. Genuine is a
    misnomer (perhaps for pearls it's fine, but that's about as far as
    you should go with it). Natural means it comes from the earth. It
    does not mean that nothing has ever been done to it. What's done to
    it afterwards is a separate issue. You can have genuine synthetics
    (in other words they are genuinely a synthetic stone) too. And as
    I've mentioned before, repeatedly, on this forum, what are you
    telling the people when you show them two natural gemstones: one is
    heated and is exactly the color that most people expect to see in
    sapphire and one of them is unheated and has a very light color. Both
    are clean and bright stones. Which one goes for more money?? The
    heated one! If you confuse the issue by saying that only the unheated
    stone is "natural" what good does it do anyone, especially since the
    other stone is also natural and it commands the higher price? I'm
    sorry but just because a stone is untreated does not mean that it
    will go for more money and by throwing in the term "genuine" you are
    just muddying the waters. 

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
daniel AT spirerjewelers.com
www.spirerjewelers.com

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