Moh 10
Brilliant_Rock
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- Oct 25, 2008
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I've decided to keep my purplish-pink little girl.
She passed muster.
I just got her back from the GIA yesterday.
They verified that the stone (and its current condition) match the 6-month old report.
This is a free GIA service, if you deliver it and pick it up.
Well, last week it was free.
Coincidentally as of July 1, today, they will charge 50% of your diamond's report's fee to verify a stone.
They give you a laminated verification letter.
When I picked her up today I requested a gemologist sit down with me at a microscope to answer questions.
She spent a good 30 minutes with me and taught me a lot.
She spent many years grading colored diamonds and knew her stuff.
I wanted more info on the flaws in the plot.
I learned more about the natural on one corner of the girdle and an indented natural on the girdle near other corner.
She said the cutters did a very smart job of using the rough.
She said I could polish those two naturals out and have an internally flawless stone and loose very little weight, but with rough of this color every point is precious.
One natural is a very flat-looking surface on the pavilion side of one corner of the girdle.
With a 10x loupe I thought it was an additional facet that they had polished to smooth out a natural, and this was not indicated on the report.
I was wrong.
Under the microscope she showed me that what looked like a facet under a good loupe was actually some of the flat natural exterior surface of the rough.
You can tell because under the microscope it has a rougher and more irregular texture than any of the polished surfaces.
So what I thought was an extra facet is actually the skin of the rough.
Then the indented natural is like a tiny shallow cave in the girdle near the opposite corner.
We also observed and discussed the internal graining which does not affect the VVS1 clarity because it is not visible face up.
Face up the color is even.
I'm going to try to get a pic of the graining which looks like layers or streaks of pink when viewed from the end of the diamond.
Oh and, even though some of you probably already know, I said I'd answer the question about which vendor the stone came from. . .
http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/2709.htm
This vendor has been wonderful to deal with.
She passed muster.
I just got her back from the GIA yesterday.
They verified that the stone (and its current condition) match the 6-month old report.
This is a free GIA service, if you deliver it and pick it up.
Well, last week it was free.
Coincidentally as of July 1, today, they will charge 50% of your diamond's report's fee to verify a stone.
They give you a laminated verification letter.
When I picked her up today I requested a gemologist sit down with me at a microscope to answer questions.
She spent a good 30 minutes with me and taught me a lot.
She spent many years grading colored diamonds and knew her stuff.
I wanted more info on the flaws in the plot.
I learned more about the natural on one corner of the girdle and an indented natural on the girdle near other corner.
She said the cutters did a very smart job of using the rough.
She said I could polish those two naturals out and have an internally flawless stone and loose very little weight, but with rough of this color every point is precious.
One natural is a very flat-looking surface on the pavilion side of one corner of the girdle.
With a 10x loupe I thought it was an additional facet that they had polished to smooth out a natural, and this was not indicated on the report.
I was wrong.
Under the microscope she showed me that what looked like a facet under a good loupe was actually some of the flat natural exterior surface of the rough.
You can tell because under the microscope it has a rougher and more irregular texture than any of the polished surfaces.
So what I thought was an extra facet is actually the skin of the rough.
Then the indented natural is like a tiny shallow cave in the girdle near the opposite corner.
We also observed and discussed the internal graining which does not affect the VVS1 clarity because it is not visible face up.
Face up the color is even.
I'm going to try to get a pic of the graining which looks like layers or streaks of pink when viewed from the end of the diamond.
Oh and, even though some of you probably already know, I said I'd answer the question about which vendor the stone came from. . .
http://www.fancydiamonds.net/view_diamonds/2709.htm
This vendor has been wonderful to deal with.
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