[Jewelry making - Article 00193] - Re: [Orchid] A good reason to own a microscope

[David Huffman]

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>     I have a feeling someone, somewhere down the line had two stones
>     the same size, color and clarity and they accidentally switched
>     them. 

    There's another, more sinister possibility. The guy who sold it to
    the retailer had made counterfit copies of the cert to sell a few
    diamonds he had that were of the same grade. Certed diamonds cost
    more than non-certed ones, so he would have made a couple hundred
    bucks more on those stones. Take a close look at the cert to see if
    it has GIA's hologram (one that actually works when you move it
    around). With todays color printers and scanners, it wouldn't be
    hard to make a copy that would fool anyone who wasn't familiar with
    the real thing, such as a customer off the streets. Of course, you
    could be right. One has to be careful when showing more than one
    stone of a perticular grade that one doesn't mix up the stones in
    their papers. Another possibility, the dealer had another retailer
    who was showing it to his customer drop ship it to the second
    retailer. That other retailer could have had a couple similar stones
    and he was responsible for the mixup. 

David L. Huffman
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