Informational Jewelry Blogs

Wow! I never knew there are so many people wanting to know more about their jewelry! Thanks for all your e-mail's and comments! What I would like to do is start an organized blog about jewelry evaluation. It will be based on a systematic approach that I use when appraising jewelry for insurance purposes. I will talk about subjects of interest including environmental and social aspects of jewelry. I will also discuss different forms and value and when you should have an item appraised for insurance purposes. Here are some topics that I will include:

Metals- Kinds of metals, metal stampings, metal testing, metal values.

Diamonds- More on this complicated topic including the history of diamond mining and cutting, use in jewelry, those 4 C's, prices, branded diamonds, conflict diamonds, laboratory reports, and other topics as they arrise.

Gemstones- mining, cutting, treatments, laboratory reports, pricing, etc.

Valuation- different values, appraising, insurance.

More to come! Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Nikki Hart