Huge, Rare Emerald Up For Auction

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8-27-2010 @ 11:38AM

mandmjlrscvca said...

The emerald appears so opaque, I hope whomever buyes it does not feel robbed or mis led by the use and statement of value by a so called "GIA Certified Appraiser". It is one thing to be a certified gemologist which is only certified by GIA and not any other legal body. It is recognized as what it is. "Certification", a certificate received when successfully having passed the course at GIA. To say certified appraiser is a joke. You can have a stone identified by a GIA grad, but valued, not in a verifiable way. I sent a one carat diamond to GIA in New York and the same diamond to the GIA when it was in Santa Monica. The certs came back off two grades from each other. Not good and what is worse, appraisers do not have a specific guideline of pricing. Appraisers at a high line store will appraise based on their mark up and not the reality. You could take a one carat fine Sapphire to two different stores and have up to a 300% difference in Appraised Value...... That is the reality. I have appraised Gems and jewelry for 30 years and have seen it on a regular basis. So baloney to GIA.

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