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| The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones: A Complete Guide to Appraising and Using Precious Stones From Cut and Color to Shape and Settings | 
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| Author: Judith Crowe
Publisher: Firefly Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 12643
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1554071666
Dewey Decimal Number: 553.8
EAN: 9781554071661
ASIN: 1554071666
Publication Date: October 9, 2006
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Product Description
For goldsmiths, collectors, jewelry-makers, investors, retailers and consumers. The trade of gemstones is a highly specialized and often secretive business. Using The Jeweler's Directory of Gemstones, written by an expert gemstone dealer and designer, will provide any consumer with the insider knowledge needed to make accurate judgments of gemstones, to recognize low- and high-quality stones, and to make a good buy rather than a bad one. Each full-color spread is packed with concise text, annotated drawings and beautiful photographs, including a showcase of virtuoso jewelry designs. Great for informed consumers, the book includes: - Sources and grading
- Traditional and modern settings
- Cutting and faceting
- Designing a special setting
- Gemstone groups
- Appraising, buying and handling gemstones
- Diamond types and pearls
- Spotting synthetics and fakes.
Here is a sampling of the practical insider information in this book: - Using a loupe to examine a stone
- Understanding laser cutting and carving
- Identifying synthetic diamonds
- Buying at gem fairs and from dealers
- Cleaning and storing stones.
No other book has this kind expert advice -- up-to-date, clearly presented and fully illustrated -- on evaluating and using gemstones. (2007)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 FINALLY! November 20, 2006
36 out of 37 found this review helpful
I'd been looking for a book like this for what seemed like FOR-EV-ARRRR!!!
As a jewelry artist, I've always wanted to add some gemstone books to my huge jewelry-related book collection, but all I could ever find were ones that seemed to be written only for gemstone collectors & science nerds--not that there's ANYTHING bad about stone collectors OR science nerds--it was just that these books never really focused much (if at all) on the jewelry-related aspect of gemstones!!
This book definitely fills that huge (and what you'd think would be obvious) void that all those other books seem to have missed.
I am hoping the book will be revised in the future to include more stones, and maybe fix a few things that were left out..
For example: in the list of U.S. locations where Tourmaline mines exist, Maine was left out!! :-o
But the flaws I see in this book are very minor--overall I am very satisfied with it, and I am very thankful to Judith Crowe for finally making the book that I was searching for!! :-)
Love this book! January 5, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
A beautiful book with plenty of colorful photographs of stones and jewelery pieces. Very well illustrated and easy to follow. Author offers some useful advice on how to set gemstones to bring out the best color. However, I believe that the table showing on Carat weights for genuine stones (Page 29) is not correct. Nevertheless, overall rating is still a 5!!!
 All in all, a good and useful book March 29, 2007
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
All in all, this is a good book. It covers all the gemstone families, and the stones in each. It starts with a general overview of the creation of gemstones, their history, how they are mined and cut. It then describes the stones. A very handy section is where they discus treatments and immitations. Another good point is the plentiful pictures of 99% of the stones that they mention. The last section reviews working with and apprasing gemstones.
My only complaint is this: The overview at the beginning is general and simple/easy to understand. They don't go to deep into the science or use some of the terms they use later in the descriptions of them gems. Its a bit anoying to have to figure out or look up scientific words. The good thing is that it didnt happen often.
A Valuable Addition to a Gemstone Library January 5, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
"The Jeweller's Directory of Gemstones" provides a good introduction to the world of gemstones for both jewellers and those interested in purchasing gemstone jewellery. This full color book complements the existing gemstone directories. I also own copies of Gemstones (Smithsonian Handbooks) and Gemstones of the World: Newly Revised & Expanded Third Edition and I consider all three of these books to be of equal value (I recommend that you purchase all three of them, if you can afford it). However, unlike the other two books I mentioned, this book discusses gemstone jewellery, as well as providing geological information about the gems (most gemstone guides simply focus on the geological detail). This book also has a good glossary and index.
This book is a valuable addition to any gemstone library and it is well worth the price of purchase.
Gemstones January 16, 2007
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is excellent in reviewing every gemstone and giving full detail on how to understand and identify in full detail the gemston. I am learning how to identify gemstones and this is a great resource for detail sources.
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