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February 13, 2014
How to Buy Jewelry Like a Jeweler
If a stone is large, you should ask to have it pulled so you can inspect it loose. Flaws are hidden under prongs. Pink gold can enhance pink stones. A common trick is to set a brownish diamond in yellow gold prongs to make it appear more like a canary. - - | VICE United States
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 13, 2014 12:37 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Eureka!*
Wasn't that what Archimedes in his bath exclaimed when he was working on the problem of whether the jeweler used all of the precious metals the jeweler had been given to make the crown?
*A piece of schoolboy knowledge, but that is the sort of knowledge one needs.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at February 13, 2014 6:09 PM