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GEM AND JEWELRY PROFESSIONALS WORRIED ABOUT DISCLOSURE LIABILITY RELY ON PROVEN RESOURCE

“The book you can’t do without…”        

—Rapaport Diamond Report

With the consumer rights spotlight focusing ever more intensely on disclosure responsibilities and their legal ramifications, gem and jewelry professionals are looking for a reliable resource to protect themselves.

The newly released Gem Identification Made Easy, 4th Edition: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying & Selling (GemStone Press / September / $36.95 / Hardcover) by Antoinette L. Matlins, P.G., and her late father, Antonio C. Bonanno, F.G.A., A.S.A., M.G.A., contains the information both professionals and novices need to keep themselves on top of what’s happening in the jewelry and gem market . The book sheds light on many new treatments, synthetics, and imitations, providing practical, simple techniques for detecting each of them.  Perhaps most encouraging for retailers and others in the jewelry trade, most of the techniques are simple, and the instruments required are inexpensive and portable. Anyone can master them.

This award-winning book—which has won a Benjamin Franklin Award for “Best How-to Book”—has demystified the process of gem identification and differentiation for thousands of jewelry professionals and gem lovers since the first edition was published in 1989. The new, fully revised and expanded Gem Identification Made Easy, 4th Edition: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying & Selling will update retailers and appraisers about important topics such as treatments and disclosure issues, just in time for the busy holiday season.

Full of the kind of information gem and jewelry professionals will appreciate, but written in a style a layperson can comprehend, Gem Identification Made Easy, 4th Edition is an invaluable handbook.  It discusses the simple, inexpensive instruments needed to do the job, how to use them, and what they show, gem by gem.  Equally important, the book emphasizes when the use of these simple tools may not be sufficient, providing valuable guidelines on when more sophisticated laboratory equipment may be necessary.  The Gem Identification Made Easy, 4th Edition also provides latest information on recent developments, including:

  • Information about the high-pressure/high-temperature techniques (HPHT) now used on certain diamond types—what they are, and how to spot diamonds that might have been treated by these new processes
  • New diffusion techniques used to treat near-colorless sapphires to obtain “padparadscha” (orangy pink), orange, and yellow colors—and how to detect them
  • New gems such as chromium-type emeralds from Hiddenite, North Carolina—and how to distinguish them from emeralds from other localities
  • New, easy-to-use, portable instruments for spotting treatments, synthetics, and look-alikes, and how to use them
  • And more…

 

Antonio C. Bonnano, F.G.A., A.S.A., M.G.A., was founder and president of the National Gem Appraising Laboratory and director of the Columbia School of Gemology in Washington, D.C. He worked with gems and minerals for over sixty years, specializing in forensic gemology, and was frequently called as an expert witness in a wide range of court cases. He is a member of the Gemstone Hall of Fame.

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Gem Identification Made Easy, 4th Edition: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying and Selling (6 x 9, 372 pp., more than 150 photographs and illustrations, 75 in full color, ISBN 0-943763-59-0, Hardcover, $36.99) and all of Antoinette Matlins’ books are available from retail bookstores, amazon.com, GIA, Kassoy, Rubin, Grobet, and other jewelry supply houses, or directly from GemStone Press, P.O. Box 237, Woodstock, VT 05091. Tel: (802) 457-4000, Fax: (802) 457-4004, www.gemstonepress.com. For credit card orders, call (800) 962-4544. Add $3.95 shipping and handling for the first book, $2.00 each additional book.