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P: 3/27/2009 3:46:43 AM
stelfina Rough Rock Total Posts: 3 Last Post: 3/27/2009 Member Since: 3/27/2009	Hi :) I am new to this forum but have been reading and browsing through posts for a couple of days and finally decided to register Yesterday I and my mum bought a diamond ring. It isn't big compared to all of the stones here Mine is just 0.56ct. Bought it from Altinbas. I do not expect you to know it as it is a turkish brand. This is their website : http://www.altinbas.com/english/index.html The problem is that I am not entirely sure whether the diamond is real, although the brand is one of the most ftrusted in Bulgaria. I have read almost all articles with titles such as " How to tell whether a diamond is real or fake" but most of the methods suggested are for unmounted stones. I did the fogg test and I am really worried because it FOGGS UP I tried to clean the stone and performed the test again and again.... THE RESULTS WERE THE SAME- the FOG STAYS Could it be a fake ?
Posted: 3/27/2009 3:46:43 AM

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P: 3/27/2009 5:27:01 AM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,212 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	Hi Stelfina, Really all you can do is take it to a reliable appraiser if you are at all unsure if you have one in your area, or a trustworthy jeweller, they will be able to verify if what you have is diamond or not. I have tried the fog test many times out of interest and get different results with it, so I wouldn't rely on that as an accurate way to tell! Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 3/27/2009 5:27:01 AM

P: 3/27/2009 7:03:18 AM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	Date: 3/27/2009 5:27:01 AM Author: Lorelei Hi Stelfina, Really all you can do is take it to a reliable appraiser if you are at all unsure if you have one in your area, or a trustworthy jeweller, they will be able to verify if what you have is diamond or not. I have tried the fog test many times out of interest and get different results with it, so I wouldn't rely on that as an accurate way to tell! Agreed. Try and get an independant appraiser (one who does not sell jewelry) to look at it, that is preferable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 3/27/2009 7:03:18 AM

P: 3/27/2009 7:40:44 AM
stelfina Rough Rock Total Posts: 3 Last Post: 3/27/2009 Member Since: 3/27/2009	Thank you :) It is the fog test that makes me unsure whether the diamond is real. I will try and find somebody
Posted: 3/27/2009 7:40:44 AM

P: 3/27/2009 7:46:36 AM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,212 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	Date: 3/27/2009 7:40:44 AM Author: stelfina Thank you :) It is the fog test that makes me unsure whether the diamond is real. I will try and find somebody Most welcome! A good appraiser might also be able to point out inclusions in your diamond if the clarity grade permits, and you will be able to always identify it in that case. Did your diamond come with a lab report such as GIA? Nothing is more sacred as the bond between horse and rider...no other creature can ever become so emotionally close to a human as a horse. When a horse dies, the memory lives on because an enormous part of his owner's heart, soul, very existence dies also...but that can never be laid to rest, it is not meant to be... - Stephanie M Thorn
Posted: 3/27/2009 7:46:36 AM

P: 3/27/2009 7:47:05 AM
neatfreak Ideal Rock Total Posts: 13,445 Last Post: 11/22/2009 Member Since: 2/17/2007	A diamond will fog too...but a CZ/fake fogs MUCH more and for MUCH longer. So just because your stone figs doesn't mean it isn't real.
Posted: 3/27/2009 7:47:05 AM

P: 3/27/2009 12:57:52 PM
stelfina Rough Rock Total Posts: 3 Last Post: 3/27/2009 Member Since: 3/27/2009	There is a certificate from the manifacturer, not from a lab. By the way tried to fog the fake pink stones of my hair-clip and guess what - there was no fog at all ?! Probably they are plastic.... idk How is that possible- a diamond to fog and fakes not to ? I am becoming a neurotic
Posted: 3/27/2009 12:57:52 PM

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