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Fancy Color Diamond Book Explores The World Of Rare Colored Diamonds

Filed under: Jewelry, Books


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.

Blue Nile Fancy Color Diamonds Collection

Filed under: Jewelry

Color diamonds are not just for royalty and celebrities anymore. Blue Nile has just launched an exclusive $4.5 million collection of rare, fancy color diamonds for sale online. With yellow, pink, blue, purple, orange, cognac, champagne and red diamonds to choose from, why settle for white?

Only 1 in every 10,000 diamonds possess natural color and true red is the rarest of all, with only seven in the world believed to be for sale. Add a little color to your ring finger with this .55 carat red diamond for $350,000. You can rest assured that nobody else will have one like it.

Prices for other fancy colored diamonds at Blue Nile start at $2,250 for a half-carat cognac diamond and go up to $650,000 for a 3.65 carat pink diamond.

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