You might be wondering what is sterling silver? Sterling silver is an alloy made from 92.5 percent silver and 7.5 percent alloy. An alloy is essentially the mixture of two (or more) elements taken from the periodic table. Regarding sterling silver, the alloys can include zinc, copper or nickel. While the United States, Europe […]
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#1. Rub the jewelry using a soft white cloth. If you find any black marks on the cloth, then you can be sure that it is made of real sterling silver. This is because any air exposure causes real sterling silver to oxidize. This causes them to deteriorate with time, and the reason why […]
925 Sterling Silver jewelry certainly does not come cheap. It requires quite an investment from your side, whether you are buying a sterling silver pendant or a necklace. But it is a worthwhile investment as its value increases with time. What is very important though is not to be duped into buying fake 925 […]
If you’re considering buying sterling silver jewelry, you will no doubt want to know the difference between pure silver and 925 الفضة الاسترليني. Well, pure silver is not really made up of only silver. It has 99.9% of silver, and a small content composed of other metals such as copper. الفضة الاسترليني, on the […]
Rarely will you see a diamond with an I1 clarity grade sold with a certificate. As I discussed in the Diamond Clarity article, it is no small matter that James Allen has decided to sell GIA certified I1 diamonds online. There are very few places that do this. Intelligent companies in the industry never […]
If you click on the image of a sample “Rap List,” you will see four separate grids. Each one is for a different size category. The four categories shown on this sample are 0.90-0.99, 1.00-1.49, 1.50-1.99, و 2.00-2.99. Each grid is a matrix of color against clarity. To find the “Rap Price” for a […]
According to Wikipedia, Martin Rapaport started as a cleaver and rough sorter in Antwerp, Belgium. في 1975 he began brokering rough and polished diamonds in New York City and, في 1978, created the Rapaport Prices List. Since creating the price list, he’s also known for founding many businesses in the diamond industry, including an […]
As we’ve covered below, a significant amount of the diamond pricing equation is based on the Rapaport Prices List, or Rap List — an industry price list that provides standardized pricing for different diamond color and clarity grades. One interesting outcome of the entire business being based on the Rap List is that far […]
You could imagine very easily that if there’s a 20% price jump from a 0.99ct diamond to a 1.00ct diamond, the cutter who loses that 0.01ct trying to make a prettier stone will lose his job. Perhaps with the nicer cut it will only be worth 15% less instead of 20%, but either way, […]
I stress categories, because you might mistakenly believe that prices per carat increase continuously as weight is increased, but this is not the case. Since diamonds are a retail product driven more by emotion than reason, a 0.99ct diamond is worth only about 1% more than a similar diamond weighing 0.98ct. But a 1.00ct […]