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Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Damage

While diamonds are the hardest natural substance on earth, if it weren't possible to break them, we wouldn't be able to cut them to...

Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Gold & Platinum

This next topic applies whether or not the gemstone in your jewelry is a diamond. Still, since the series has been Understanding Your...

Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Setting Style

Today we're moving from the diamonds themselves to the way they are set. Above is a graphic showing twelve common ways stones (not just...

Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Cut

While shape is the outward shape of the stone, the word cut is used to denote how well a diamond returns light. Remember physics class?...

Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Clarity

Next on the list is clarity. Almost all diamonds will have some type of inclusion inside, the severity of which will determine its...

Understanding Your Diamond Appraisal: Shape

Diamonds are cut into many shapes--even more than the ten shown here-- and the shape impacts the value every time. It can also help date...