[Jewelry making - Article 00017] - Re: [Orchid] Finding lost diamonds

[Daniel Spirer]

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    This isn't the strangest story but I bet it's one of the longest
    ones. We had a customer who brought us three old mine cut diamonds
    (about a third of a carat each) that she wanted made up in a ring (a
    really ugly ring, I might add). When we had her come in to look at
    it before we set the diamonds we said to her: "We're going to just
    drop the diamonds into the bezels but they're loose so don't turn
    your hand over." What was the first thing she did? Turned her hand
    over of course! We found two immediately but the third was nowhere to
    be found. Three of us searched high and low in the front of the shop.
    During the search some other customer came in and joined the search.
    She left rather abruptly (leading us to believe at one point that
    she had found it and walked out with it). We all stripped down and
    checked ourselves and our clothes. We spent close to three hours
    looking for the darn thing. Fortunately the woman had more than
    three of them and, since she had done exactly what we told her not to
    do (and she knew it) she just gave us one of the other ones to work
    with. EIGHT YEARS later we had a kid working for us who did the
    cleaning. One day he decided to sweep out under the safe (which was
    in the back room). At the very back of the safe, he saw something
    sparkle and fished it out. There it was! 

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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