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Would you keep a horrible looking diamond you own?

P: 8/26/2006 1:43:52 AM
Pyramid Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,914 Last Post: 11/11/2009 Member Since: 11/10/2002	A hypothetical question here: If you own what you consider a horrible diamond - say an old .25 carat diamond or so that is either chipped or has noticeable inclusions or cut badly or poor colour, etc. etc. Would you keep it apart from sentimental reasons? Say if it still sparkled or just to add to your collection it is still another diamond after all. or Would you give it away, say to a younger person in their teens, daughter, family friend, grand daughter, even son/grandson if they had a piercing. Just wondering leave it in a box where no one sees it or give it away or wear it any other scenarios - it is just a hypothetical question after all.
Posted: 8/26/2006 1:43:52 AM

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P: 8/26/2006 1:49:35 AM
Lorelei Ideal Rock Total Posts: 34,254 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 4/30/2005	Hi Pyramid I think I would keep it from a " gemological" point of view, as I find inclusions interesting. If it sparkled and looked half way decent from a distance I might set it in a pendant or something, but if it was really included that I wasn't comfortable wearing it, then I would just keep it anyway. It definitely would have some value to me as it is still a diamond. I would have fun with a loupe trying to identify the inclusions and doing my own map! The colour wouldn't worry me even if it was an O or P etc, maybe I don't have much of an eye for colour, but I like the warm colours anyway. 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: 8/26/2006 1:49:35 AM

P: 8/26/2006 1:58:49 AM
monarch64 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 9,557 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 8/12/2005	I had one of those...and I'm not afraid to say that before I found PS I gave it away to my "little sister." I met her and mentored her through "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." Henry David Thoreau
Posted: 8/26/2006 1:58:49 AM

P: 8/26/2006 7:13:47 AM
Madam Bijoux Ideal Rock Total Posts: 3,054 Last Post: 11/24/2009 Member Since: 7/15/2005	Hi! I have a 1.15 round brilliant piece of frozen spit (I didn't choose it - got it as a birthday present) that I plan to trade in if anyone would take it. "I never met a diamond I didn't like." No jewel is as beautiful as a cat's eyes. Madam Bijoux (Gabrielle)
Posted: 8/26/2006 7:13:47 AM

P: 8/26/2006 8:03:04 AM
Mokey Cut Rock Total Posts: 371 Last Post: 1/21/2008 Member Since: 1/20/2006	I have a .50 of frozen spit that I plan to trade back to the place I got it for something else. If I only knew then what I know now
Posted: 8/26/2006 8:03:04 AM

P: 8/26/2006 9:24:21 AM
Ellen Ideal Rock Total Posts: 22,894 Last Post: 11/6/2009 Member Since: 1/13/2006	I have a .50 very so so cut round in a pendant my dad had made for me. It came from his second wifes engagement ring. Having seen the light and now have a beautiful new ER and new studs, it doesn't "go" with them at all. However, my dad meant the world to me, (he's gone now), and I wouldn't dream of getting rid of it. So I'll keep it forever, and maybe wear it it occasionally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "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: 8/26/2006 9:24:21 AM

P: 8/26/2006 10:28:50 AM
devientdrow Ideal Rock Total Posts: 554 Last Post: 8/24/2007 Member Since: 11/29/2005	I do have one of those hehe. My original ering stone was a .25ct, K in color I think, and I3 for clarity. It was cut very deep. I kept it. At first I just kept it in the jewelry box but then I got a white gold setting from Jareds on clearance and put it in that. It looks better in the setting and if I clean it religiously it doesn't look TOO bad!
Posted: 8/26/2006 10:28:50 AM

P: 8/26/2006 3:19:07 PM
Pyramid Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,914 Last Post: 11/11/2009 Member Since: 11/10/2002	See most people keep their diamonds. I have one which is about 18 points which I have kept but would give it to a younger member of the family someday, say when they are maybe 13 or 14. Apart from the sentimental reasons, it seems that diamonds are still diamonds and so worth something to us. to Lorelei
Posted: 8/26/2006 3:19:07 PM

P: 8/26/2006 5:48:35 PM
kcoursolle Ideal Rock Total Posts: 10,344 Last Post: 10/14/2009 Member Since: 1/21/2006	I have a pair of studs that are tiny, not well cut, and not very sparkley. I have kept them so far mostly because I don't think I'd get more than $100 for them and it's not really worth it to trade in. I don't wear them though, but I might give them to a younger female relative if I get the chance someday.
Posted: 8/26/2006 5:48:35 PM

P: 8/27/2006 12:43:29 AM
diamondseeker2006 Ideal Rock Total Posts: 17,609 Last Post: 11/18/2009 Member Since: 1/11/2006	I gave the very small diamond studs I was given on my 18th birthday to my oldest daughter on her 18th birthday. They are small enough that they could be decent quality, but who knows? I have a 1.5 ctw pair of studs that were pre-PS, and I am saving those to give to her later! The youngest daughter will just have to wait until I'm gone to get my new studs which will be ideal cut! Same situation with my e-ring diamond. The old one is 1 ct. but I don't even care to reset it but will save it to hand down to one of the girls. Most people are really clueless about diamond quality, so there are plenty of people who'd be happy to get diamond hand-me-downs as gifts! ~~~ When in doubt...don't.~~~
Posted: 8/27/2006 12:43:29 AM

P: 8/27/2006 7:08:55 AM
ladykemma Ideal Rock Total Posts: 2,194 Last Post: 6/16/2007 Member Since: 1/2/2006	i have two badly cut stones one was a pendant i found on the ground. it is 43 points, noticeably out of round, and basically no crown. I had it set in a king arthur's seat setting. the jeweler did a magnificent job of selecting that setting which fools the eye into thinking that it is a princess cut. i plan to keep it. the lack of crown results in only white light return with big black and white chunky flashes of light. it is fascinating. another is an YG eighties cluster with a badly cut center stone. I am keeping it until YG comes back into style.
Posted: 8/27/2006 7:08:55 AM

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