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Here is a good question for you early risers,
In 2001 I introduced the idea of the "four c's of connoissurship", color/cut/clarity/crystal. Grading gems, particularly finer quality gems using only color/clarity/cut seemed to me inadaquate. Something was missing. The introduction of transparency or "crystal". The clue to this I found in the use by people like Tavernier of the old term now archaic term "water" as in "gem of the finest water" which is defined as color/transparency.
Most of my book's reviewers either passed over or seemed not to understand my point. How do you feel? Can a fine colored gem be adequately described without using the word "transparent" or some synonym? Is "crystal" somehow redundant?
In 2001 I introduced the idea of the "four c's of connoissurship", color/cut/clarity/crystal. Grading gems, particularly finer quality gems using only color/clarity/cut seemed to me inadaquate. Something was missing. The introduction of transparency or "crystal". The clue to this I found in the use by people like Tavernier of the old term now archaic term "water" as in "gem of the finest water" which is defined as color/transparency.
Most of my book's reviewers either passed over or seemed not to understand my point. How do you feel? Can a fine colored gem be adequately described without using the word "transparent" or some synonym? Is "crystal" somehow redundant?