[Jewelry making - Article 00770] - Re: [Orchid] Natural-color yellow Diamonds

[Richard Hart]

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>     Demand from strata of American society for diamond fashions that
>     would previously have only bought one diamond in their lives... a
>     diamond engagement ring, forced a reevaluation of yellow diamonds
>     (and other shades, like brown). These diamonds are now valuable in
>     carat and above sizes, known, I believe, as fancies.

    1977 my G.I.A. course in diamonds valued fancy yellow diamonds at a
    premium over colorless diamonds of the same clarity. I had a customer
    who wanted a row of 1.5 mm yellow diamonds on each side of her center
    stone and after a lot of research, synthetic diamonds from Stuller 
was
    the only possibility for the deep color and matching size. Customer
    could not have cared less whether they were synthetic or natural, 
they
    looked really pretty.

Richard Hart
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