Book Description
one person can accomplish big things.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-14
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763894
one person can accomplish big things.
Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 30,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763592
This revised edition covers the latest gems, synthetics, treatments and instruments. It is easy to use, practical and non-technical indicating how to identify diamonds, coloured gemstones and pearls, as well as separating them from fakes and look-alikes. The book explains what instruments are needed and how to use them, where to obtain such instruments and what should be seen for each gemstone. Anyone can learn to identify most of the gems and imitations found in the market place. This volume is the key to avoiding costly mistakes and recognising profitable opportunities.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Precious stones
ISBN : 9780997014556
Gem Identification Made Easy is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated stones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The book's approach is direct and practical, and its style easy to understand. In fact, with this highly accessible guide, anyone can begin to master gem identification. Includes over 150 photographs and illustrationsover 80 in full color! Using a simple, step-by-step system, the authors explain how to properly use essential but uncomplicated instruments to identify stones, what to look for gemstone by gemstone, and how to set up a basic lab at modest cost. Three of the instruments are inexpensive, portable, pocket instruments that, when used together, can identify almost 85% of all precious and popular stones. The key to avoiding costly mistakes and recognizing profitable opportunities is knowing both what to look for and what to look out for. Gem Identification Made Easy will help you: Open your eyes to the types of treatments, imitations, synthetics, look-alikes, and fakes in the gem market today. Learn how to tell the difference between them. Quickly spot: Synthetics, including synthetic emeralds and diamonds Filled diamonds Diffused "blue" sapphires and "red" rubies HPHT-treated diamonds ... and much more! Determine how to spot the newest "composite" imitations. Learn how to identify recently discovered gems such as "Mandarin" garnet, red "emerald," and North Carolina's chromium-rich emeralds. Discover new treatments such as surface coatings to create "fancy color" diamonds and improve or change the color of many gemstones. Know when to seek help from a professional gemologist or lab. Become more professional in your business or hobby.
Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
An easy-to-use book that shows how anyone can learn to identify most of the gems and synthetics found in the marketplace. This practical book is essential reading for collectors, dealers, or students alike on how to avoid costly mistakes and recognize profitable opportunities.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780990415275
This comprehensive guide, from gemstone expert and best-selling author Antoinette Matlins, is all you need to help you buy, collect, sell, care for--or simply enjoy--colored gemstones with confidence and knowledge. Easy to understand and practical, this updated and expanded edition explains what to look for and what to look out for!
Author : Walter Schumann
Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Describes the appearance, formation, physical properties and characteristics, mining, and cutting of precious, semiprecious, and synthetic gemstones.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,39 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763932
This colorful book offers you a window into the world of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most amazing people of the twentieth century. You will learn about Gandhi’s life—from his time as a student in London to his work for equality in South Africa and India—and his methods of peaceful, but not passive, resistance to injustice.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763983
Explains in non-technical terms how to use the refractometer to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the refractometer.
Author : Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Publisher : Gemstone Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 094376372X
This book gives you all the information you need to buy, collect, sell or simply enjoy sapphires, emeralds, rubies and other coloured gemstones with confidence and knowledge. With more varieties than ever before to choose from, including altogether new gems, revolutionary new cuts and new ways to buy gems -- such as Internet auctions and TV shopping -- there has never been a more exciting time to buy or collect coloured gemstones. But there are also new high-tech treatments and sophisticated frauds to look out for. Lack of information, error or misrepresentation can make the thrill of buying a gem or piece of jewellery confusing, intimidating, overwhelming and costly. Buyers need a source of expert guidance. This practical, comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide provides all the information you need in order to know what to look for, and what to look out for, including: What qualifies as a "gemstone"?; How to evaluate colour -- and its impact on price; Deciding between a natural gem and an enhanced gem . . . and new glass-gemstone compositions; Coloured gemstone synthesis and treatment; What to get in writing; How to get what you want within your budget; Price guides for popular gems, opals and synthetic stones; Important information about buying on the Internet; What to ask when buying the stone . . . and much more! Written by an "insider", this easy-to-read guide is the "unofficial coloured gemstone bible" for anyone who wants to get the most for their money and enjoy what they have purchased.
Author : Antoinette Matlins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0943763940
Explains in non-technical terms how to use the loupe and dark-field loupe to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations, treated gemstones, synthetics, and look-alikes. The approach is direct and practical, and its style is easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide booklet, anyone can begin to master gem identification using the loupe and dark-field loupe.