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Here’s an interesting document that I came across from a client today. (posted here with permission by the way). It’s EGL International from 1979. Is this the same lab we all know and love from 2013?
There’s a few things on this report that give me pause.
The grading is quite reasonable from examining the stone.
The logo is different.
The address is different.
OK, so those things change often but there’s a few more.
The grading scale on the back shows a clarity grading scale that does not include the signature EGL SI3 grade and it uses the CIBJO acronym for the lower grades of P1-P3.
They are using a numerical color scale that’s similar, but not identical, to the AGS scale. That is to say, they don’t seem to be using either the GIA or the CIBJO terminology
Their website says EGLI was founded in 1974, so it’s possible this is them but it may be a knockoff using the different spelling of Gemmological.
The lab director’s title as well as the claim about who did the inspection is ‘graduate gemmologist’. I thought that was a GIA term, spelled with only one M, and that the European schools and titles used slightly different credentials. FGA comes to mind for example.
Has anyone ever seen one of these?
There’s a few things on this report that give me pause.
The grading is quite reasonable from examining the stone.
The logo is different.
The address is different.
OK, so those things change often but there’s a few more.
The grading scale on the back shows a clarity grading scale that does not include the signature EGL SI3 grade and it uses the CIBJO acronym for the lower grades of P1-P3.
They are using a numerical color scale that’s similar, but not identical, to the AGS scale. That is to say, they don’t seem to be using either the GIA or the CIBJO terminology
Their website says EGLI was founded in 1974, so it’s possible this is them but it may be a knockoff using the different spelling of Gemmological.
The lab director’s title as well as the claim about who did the inspection is ‘graduate gemmologist’. I thought that was a GIA term, spelled with only one M, and that the European schools and titles used slightly different credentials. FGA comes to mind for example.
Has anyone ever seen one of these?
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