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jabberwock

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Hi All,

This is my first post. I have never given any thought to diamonds before, but am now in the process of finding a nice pendant for my wife. There is no occasion, and I have come up with the decision that it is going to be simple design with a pear stone. I have two choices, and one is from Good Old Gold. They have few choices for in-house pears, and I don't want anything that is not eye-clean or more than $2k. This leaves me with the following stone:

http://www.goodoldgold.com/diamond/5590/

Can you folk evaluate the images and give me your suggestions? The proportions are less than ideal, comparing to the pear knowledge-base I can find on the web, and I am wary of purchasing non-rounds as it appears they are hard to judge by the numbers alone.

As an aside, which other vendors will provide me with ASET images, if I want to look for a stone from elsewhere?
 
I wish they would take another picture of that stone. It looks so brown in that pic which I doubt it looks like in real life
but its hard to have a good opinion of it with the brown tones.

The only other place I would look is James Allen. They will give you up to 3 asets no charge.

You might try looking at these two. I'm not looking at the numbers but going more by the pics.

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/F-VS1-Very%20Good-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1446332.asp
http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/H-VS2-Ideal-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1175396.asp
 
Thanks for the quick reply, and the suggestions. That second stone from JA does look striking. I was somehow stuck on this idea that it has got to be 3/4ct, so all my searches started at 0.75. I might have been omitting some good stones a little smaller.

I am finding it very difficult to tell brilliance from pictures of the diamond. I think it depends very much on how well they photograph it. With all the light reflections, it is going to be hard to do justice. Somehow, the brown look of the GOG stone does not seem to be real. It may just be the lighting conditions or the surroundings while taking the picture contributing to it.

What does the ASET say?
 
I really do like the facet pattern of the GOG stone and it is 5.48mm wide which will make it face up larger as well. I like chubby pears, LOL....And it is almost half the price of the ones from JA. I doubt seriously if a GIA I color will look dark or "brown". The H .71c from JA has that same brownish tone. But it just depends on your budget and which facet pattern YOU like.

Get the ASETS from JA and then you will have more info. to go on to make your decision.

After looking at the pear ASETs on www.exceldiamonds.com that I on GOG looks really good. So hard to find a pear without that bow tie effect.
 
I probably would call JA and get someone who is familiar with pears to help you pick out a nice one.

Here are 3 D colored pears, make sure the blue fl. doesn't make them cloudy looking:

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-SI2-Very%20Good-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1355336.asp med blue fl (I can’t find the inclusions on this stone)

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-SI2-Ideal-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1353508.asp med blue fl

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/D-SI2-Ideal-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1355345.asp

Good luck
 
ariel144, thank you for those suggestions. As for the videos above, those were a nice find. One of the pears in those videos does look like the GOG stone I referred to above. It is very strange that they call it "champagne" or "light brown" in the video (and it does show brown), but GIA rates it I. I don't know what to make of it.

In the meanwhile, I had found this stone on JA and asked for an image (as they didn't have an actual picture originally). They have now posted the pic. Here is the link: http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/J-VS1-Ideal-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1478208.asp

What do you ppl think of this one? It does seem to show yellow in the image; don't know if the strong fluorescence is doing any good or not. My non-existent eye for diamonds says the cut looks good, and so is the price. As usual, I am completely unable to judge brilliance and I don't have an ASET image.
 
jabberwock|1336494774|3190141 said:
ariel144, thank you for those suggestions. As for the videos above, those were a nice find. One of the pears in those videos does look like the GOG stone I referred to above. It is very strange that they call it "champagne" or "light brown" in the video (and it does show brown), but GIA rates it I. I don't know what to make of it.

In the meanwhile, I had found this stone on JA and asked for an image (as they didn't have an actual picture originally). They have now posted the pic. Here is the link: http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/J-VS1-Ideal-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1478208.asp

What do you ppl think of this one? It does seem to show yellow in the image; don't know if the strong fluorescence is doing any good or not. My non-existent eye for diamonds says the cut looks good, and so is the price. As usual, I am completely unable to judge brilliance and I don't have an ASET image.
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Not really liking it. Are you trying to stay around $1k big as possible while being nicely cut? You might take a look at this one. Would need to get an aset.

http://www.jamesallen.com/diamonds/J-SI1-Very%20Good-Cut-Pear-Diamond-1397415.asp
 
jabberwock|1336495026|3190150 said:
Also, after being turned onto diamondsbylauren, I found this stone that looks like a beauty to me:
http://www.diamondsbylauren.com/index.php/jewelry/loose-diamond-71ct-pear-shape-jvvs2-gia-perfect-pear-shape-r4452

It may just be that they have such nice images. Unfortunately, I don't want to exceed $1500 on the diamond itself. Do you think these stores will negotiate? I have no idea if anyone does.
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This does look like a lovely stone. I think DBL does videos. You might ask. Not sure if they negotiate. Most on-line vendors run on
tight margins so they do not but its worth asking.
 
Thank you for the opinion. On taking a second look, I do find that the cut of the J/VS1 JA stone is worse than other examples I found today (and the one you pointed out). As I said, I'm ok going to $1500. It's just that I can't look at the image and tell how good the cut is, which is why I'm here. My primary concern is brilliance. I have seen a pear or two locally that were big and dull.

I will post a few other choices I found for your quick review a little later today.
 
I was talking to a rep from James Allen the other night (looking at H coloured pears, in the same size range actually) and he said you can't judge the colour of their stones by the colour in the photo. One I was looking at was literally brown, but so was the background. The lighting conditions of their photography is so variable stone to stone, just have a look at the backgrounds. Their photography leaves a lot to be desired actually. Also, it appears that they don't have ASET images on file for all their stones. For the stone I was interested in all they had was the one photo on the website.
 
that shows a lotta leakage to me. i would really want to see more red and green.
 
It does show a lot of leakage :sick:
 
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