Fancy Color Diamond Book Explores The World Of Rare Colored Diamonds

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 28th 2010 at 2:01PM

The last few years have seen the prices of colored diamonds hit new highs. These rare beauties get their full due in the Fancy Color Diamond Book a new publication from Assouline. The book is a 231-page book that combines the lush imagery of a coffee-table book with solid information on the world of colored stones. It serves as a reference both for professionals and interested consumers. The book is written by Eden Rachminov, one of the world experts on fancy color diamonds and a third generation diamantaire. He began the project as a service to his clients and spent two and a half years to write and research the book.

The Fancy Color Diamond Book explores the full range of fancy colors of diamonds discussing issues of grading, clarity and the role of fluorescence in determining the value of fancy color diamonds.The book includes a Fancy Color Diamond Value Scale Comparison and is full of beautiful photographs and illustrations. It sells for $220.

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