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 ACA vs. GIA Excellent, can you tell the difference?

P:  2/9/2009 11:16:48 AM  
summerluv
summerluv

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Hi everyone,
I posted a thread couple days ago regarding an ACA diamond. It's lovely, but the color is higher than I need, and there might be a visible inclusion. See post here

So I've been looking around and found an GIA triple excellent:

1.23ct, F, VS2, ~$8900
Depth: 61.2%
Table: 56.0%
Crown Angle: 34.5%
Pavilion Angle: 40.8%

It scores a 1.2 on HCA (ex, ex, ex, vg) and the picture of the diamond shows arrows. But it's not listed as H&A on the vendor's website, and obviously it's GIA instead of AGS

Since I've already returned my first ring I really don't want to go through the trouble of returning again. Can anyone please tell me what you think of this diamond comparing to the other one I posted? Is the difference between the ACA and this GIA excellent going to be very obvious?

Thank you!!


Posted:  2/9/2009 11:16:48 AM

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P: 2/9/2009 11:42:43 AM
Ellen
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Date: 2/9/2009 11:16:48 AM
Author:summerluv
Hi everyone,
I posted a thread couple days ago regarding an ACA diamond. It's lovely, but the color is higher than I need, and there might be a visible inclusion. See post here

So I've been looking around and found an GIA triple excellent:

1.23ct, F, VS2, ~$8900
Depth: 61.2%
Table: 56.0%
Crown Angle: 34.5%
Pavilion Angle: 40.8%

It scores a 1.2 on HCA (ex, ex, ex, vg) and the picture of the diamond shows arrows. But it's not listed as H&A on the vendor's website, and obviously it's GIA instead of AGS

Since I've already returned my first ring I really don't want to go through the trouble of returning again. Can anyone please tell me what you think of this diamond comparing to the other one I posted? Is the difference between the ACA and this GIA excellent going to be very obvious?

Thank you!!
We can't really say, it could be, or not. This stone does have great numbers, so you might not be able to tell a lot of difference.

If you wanted a true H&A, here's one.

Bankwire is discount.

http://goodoldgold.com/diamond/5027/

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Posted:  2/9/2009 11:42:43 AM
P: 2/9/2009 11:46:41 AM
summerluv
summerluv

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Thank you Ellen. Unfortunately the GOG one is out of my budget =( (both stones I listed are ~9k with discount)

Posted:  2/9/2009 11:46:41 AM
P: 2/9/2009 12:07:02 PM
Lorelei
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Date: 2/9/2009 11:42:43 AM
Author: Ellen

Date: 2/9/2009 11:16:48 AM
Author:summerluv
Hi everyone,
I posted a thread couple days ago regarding an ACA diamond. It's lovely, but the color is higher than I need, and there might be a visible inclusion. See post here

So I've been looking around and found an GIA triple excellent:

1.23ct, F, VS2, ~$8900
Depth: 61.2%
Table: 56.0%
Crown Angle: 34.5%
Pavilion Angle: 40.8%

It scores a 1.2 on HCA (ex, ex, ex, vg) and the picture of the diamond shows arrows. But it's not listed as H&A on the vendor's website, and obviously it's GIA instead of AGS

Since I've already returned my first ring I really don't want to go through the trouble of returning again. Can anyone please tell me what you think of this diamond comparing to the other one I posted? Is the difference between the ACA and this GIA excellent going to be very obvious?

Thank you!!
We can't really say, it could be, or not. This stone does have great numbers, so you might not be able to tell a lot of difference.

If you wanted a true H&A, here's one.

Bankwire is discount.

http://goodoldgold.com/diamond/5027/

Ditto and without hearts images then the info we get on the diamond is limited, but it does look very nice.









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Posted:  2/9/2009 12:07:02 PM
P: 2/9/2009 12:16:17 PM
Ellen
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Date: 2/9/2009 11:46:41 AM
Author: summerluv
Thank you Ellen. Unfortunately the GOG one is out of my budget =( (both stones I listed are ~9k with discount)
Ok. They have others in that color/clarity in slightly smaller sizes if you wanted to look.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds."

-Murray N. Rothbard, in The Anatomy of the State



John Swinton [1829-1901] Chief Editorial Writer of the New York Times (Considered "the Dean of his Profession" by his peers), when asked to toast an 'Independent Press' in a gathering at the National Press Club, circa 1880

"There is no such thing in America as an independent press unless it is in the country towns. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dare express an honest opinion. If you express it you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid... for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things....

The business of the New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and sell his country and race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same thing, his salary. You know this, and I know it and what foolery to be toasting an 'independent press.' We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

Posted:  2/9/2009 12:16:17 PM

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