I visited H. Moradi last week with my DH. I called ahead and let them know when I was coming and what I was particularly interested in (OECs and quality estate jewels). We drove over on Monday from our hotel in Carlsbad. Left at 9 am and got to La Jolla around 9:40 and there was 0 parking available. I later learned that "La Jolla" is the name of the local native american tribe and it means "You Will Never Ever Find a Parking Place So Go Home Right Now." 
We lucked into a Paid Parking garage and headed up Prospect Street to the shops. H. Moradi is two store fronts, across the Prospect Street from each other. One is very small, the other is small. The DH said the Persian rugs were pretty, I did not notice them because I was zeroed in on the display cases.
It didn't matter that I called ahead. They were not expecting me and they had no OECs ready to show me. I had to specifically point to OECs in the window and case to ask to see and try them on. There were several employees available who were mostly kind of apathetic. They were polite, just kind of removed? My husband was not comfortable there and that is a major problem when we go to shop for jewelry with our spouses. They had two cases of 'sale' items ("Up To 70% Off" and "Up to 40% Off"). They said they had all their inventory out on display when I was asking (for the OECs) and this does not match up to what is in their Ebay shop, but ok, whatever.
So we visited both shops and I left without buying anything. The best part of the visit was walking across Prospect Street to have lunch on the open air terrace at George's On The Cove.
Here come the pics. Its going to take me awhile because I have quite a few to download from my phone to my PC then here to PS.
If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer.
We lucked into a Paid Parking garage and headed up Prospect Street to the shops. H. Moradi is two store fronts, across the Prospect Street from each other. One is very small, the other is small. The DH said the Persian rugs were pretty, I did not notice them because I was zeroed in on the display cases.
It didn't matter that I called ahead. They were not expecting me and they had no OECs ready to show me. I had to specifically point to OECs in the window and case to ask to see and try them on. There were several employees available who were mostly kind of apathetic. They were polite, just kind of removed? My husband was not comfortable there and that is a major problem when we go to shop for jewelry with our spouses. They had two cases of 'sale' items ("Up To 70% Off" and "Up to 40% Off"). They said they had all their inventory out on display when I was asking (for the OECs) and this does not match up to what is in their Ebay shop, but ok, whatever.
So we visited both shops and I left without buying anything. The best part of the visit was walking across Prospect Street to have lunch on the open air terrace at George's On The Cove.
Here come the pics. Its going to take me awhile because I have quite a few to download from my phone to my PC then here to PS.
If you have any questions I'll do my best to answer.
I have long fingers and if it had been sized it would have made a big pointer finger statement ring for me. They should have tried to sell it to me, I might have pulled the trigger!!
Its a little under 5 ct, I believe. I was surprised to see all the blue in this pic. I didn't see that under the shop lights. It was very lively, lots of scint of pastel colors. I liked the crown-style setting. Side shot of basket up next.
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