Does anyone know of a source of calculating the value of a diamond in 1974 at today''s prices? I am in the UK.
A disastrous thing has happened - on Friday I went to take off my diamond solitaire ring and the stone was missing! I cannot explain how this has happened as I had never felt it loosen or catch on anything that day. The ring was left to me by my mother when she died 13 years ago. It was not itemised in her will, but all her posessions were divided between my sister, my brother and myself including her jewellery. I had this large solitaire diamond set in a platinum ring and another which I look after for my daughter. We have searched and asked at everywhere I went and although I feel sure it must have been lost not long and therefore be at my home, we cannot find it. We have checked the insurance details and to my horror have realised that although the insurance policy covers all my posessions including jewellery up to £1,500, the valuation and close up photograph I had of my jewellery was done some years before my mother died and is only of other jewellery left to me by my grandmother. I am therefore left with only a valuation from 1974 which doesn''t even give details of the diamond''s cut and which I can only guess which ring on the list is the one which now has the stone missing. My guess is that the stone may be worth around £1,200 but this old valuation gives a solitaire diamond ring as £240.
Having searched for 4 days now, I need to contact my insurance company to make a claim, but, however unsatisfactory the information, I would like to have bet able to estimate the value based on something, other than merely my say so.
Any advice gratefully received.
A disastrous thing has happened - on Friday I went to take off my diamond solitaire ring and the stone was missing! I cannot explain how this has happened as I had never felt it loosen or catch on anything that day. The ring was left to me by my mother when she died 13 years ago. It was not itemised in her will, but all her posessions were divided between my sister, my brother and myself including her jewellery. I had this large solitaire diamond set in a platinum ring and another which I look after for my daughter. We have searched and asked at everywhere I went and although I feel sure it must have been lost not long and therefore be at my home, we cannot find it. We have checked the insurance details and to my horror have realised that although the insurance policy covers all my posessions including jewellery up to £1,500, the valuation and close up photograph I had of my jewellery was done some years before my mother died and is only of other jewellery left to me by my grandmother. I am therefore left with only a valuation from 1974 which doesn''t even give details of the diamond''s cut and which I can only guess which ring on the list is the one which now has the stone missing. My guess is that the stone may be worth around £1,200 but this old valuation gives a solitaire diamond ring as £240.
Having searched for 4 days now, I need to contact my insurance company to make a claim, but, however unsatisfactory the information, I would like to have bet able to estimate the value based on something, other than merely my say so.
Any advice gratefully received.
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