If you have started the daunting task of shopping for loose diamonds online, you have probably discovered how difficult it is to figure out who has the best price for similar stones. Going from site to site, running individual searches on each one, then trying to compare results in several different browser windows - sound familiar? Sounds like a pain!
There are consolidated shopping search engines out there and you may have used those when looking for the best price on some other products, but those search engines have a major weakness when it comes to diamonds. Shopping for a diamond requires additional details that generic shopping search engines are not able to display. If you can’t at least see the cut, color and clarity of loose diamonds side by side, then the search results are useless. You can’t compare apples to oranges and expect to figure out which is the better deal.
Wouldn’t it be convenient if there were a comparison search engine designed specifically for loose diamonds where you could search by shape, weight, cut, color, clarity and price? Then you would see a list of matching diamonds from several online vendors and you could quickly see who has the best price for a 1.50 carat, H-VS2 round diamond with Ideal proportions. That’s not too much to ask, is it?
Well, now there is such a search engine - and you may be shocked by the results. But first, I would like to share a dirty little secret of the online diamond world with you. Did you know that the diamond inventory you see at one online loose diamond vendor is the same as many other online vendors? How is this possible - these are competing companies, so how can they be selling the same exact diamonds? Simple - they don’t have any inventory!!!
This is how the online diamond world works - Retailers get lists of available diamonds from wholesalers around the country. Those wholesalers give the retailers a cost price and the retailers decide how high to mark up each diamond. The difference in price between retailers can be as much as $10,000 for a large diamond!
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When it comes to women accessorizing having a huge collection of jewelry is considered to be normal. People have a separate box for rings, necklaces, anklets, bracelets and earrings.
This way it is easier for you to choose and find a particular ornament. But along with accessorizing everyone focuses on appearance as well. Now imagine you owning a $10 earring and inside a crappy box. It won’t lower the price of the earring but if someone comes across the box before the earring it definitely will. So once you have started your own jewelry collection a gorgeous, fancy and eye-catching jewelry box is a must.
Until the 50s and 60s, a jewelry box was considered to be a status symbol for people. The reason to that was many jewelry boxes if ordered for custom made according to your taste would cost them a fortune. Those expensive jewelry boxes were twice as costly as the jewelry it was used to hold. To own a jewelry box at that time meant that you must have had a hell lot of expensive jewelry in there which also gave them the name of treasure boxes. There were also some expensive jewelry boxes that used to play music if the cover was flipped open, they were called Musical Jewelry boxes. These kinds of boxes are still found in shops but as antiques which have risen there prices already. But jewelry boxes have taken more meaning than just grade mark when we realized their number of uses.
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You can consider getting a diamond engagement ring especially commissioned, but this is a rather expensive proposition for the majority of us, or you could consider buying loose diamonds and choosing a ring you can set them in yourself.
Don’t let this option phase you. Many jewelers offer ring fittings for diamond engagement rings which are molded ready to set loose diamonds in. This way you can create something truly unique for your girl, and how can she refuse when you have put so much effort into the decision?
If you are concerned about getting authentic loose diamonds, you can make a visit to a reputable diamond seller who will provide you with a certificate of quality and authenticity.
Maybe you are worried about the price of loose diamonds. Let me lay your mind at rest. Making diamond engagement rings, with loose diamonds, can be relatively inexpensive and affordable, as a loose diamond and a unique ring setting can cost a whole lot less than a whole engagement ring.
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Today, loose diamonds are also becoming more popular. Loose diamonds are those that have not been place into a piece of jewelry. Loose diamonds were first mined in India thousands of years ago. However, most diamonds are found in Africa today.
The main advantage of loose diamond is that it can be set in any kind of metal with the kind of design a person wants. While buying loose diamonds or other diamonds, a buyer must know about the 4 Cs: cut, color, clarity and carat. These Cs will help a person to determine its quality.
While shopping around for a loose diamond at any jewelry store or online diamond dealer be sure to ask each dealer for a 10X loupe. It is a clarity grade assigned to diamonds so that you may properly examine the core of the diamond under magnification. There are also such microscopes manufactured specifically for observing diamonds and gemstones. It is also essential to know about the nature and location of the inclusions present in the diamond.
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In doing the needed research on the history of jewelry, the writer of the following article was pleased to note mention of jewelry in ancient Persia. In the past, the same writer had given a number of presentations about the Persian New Year. The writer was already familiar with the degree to which the history of jewelry coincided with the emergence of that ancient holiday. When the Persians came to Persepolis, the site of the New Year celebration, they brought with them gifts for their ruler. Gorgeous pieces of gold and silver jewelry were most certainly found among those gifts.
The initial saga in the early history of jewelry makes no mention of the metal that is found in present-day jewelry. The very first pieces of jewelry were made of objects that were familiar to Stone Age men. Such men liked to wear necklaces made out of animal bones and animal teeth.
By wearing such a necklace, a man could show-off the number of animals that he had killed. Over time, some Stone Age “medicine men” claimed that certain pieces of jewelry delivered great healing powers. They allowed the history of jewelry to link the wearing of adornments with superstitious beliefs about the shooing away of evil spirits.
As mankind emerged from the Stone Age, the Babylonian civilization welded its influence on ancient peoples. Some skilled members of the Babylonian society discovered how to heat and mold gold, causing it to form all sorts of attractive shapes. They thus moved the world into the nest stage, a stage along the history of jewelry.
The Babylonians did not manage to put a lock on their knowledge about shaping gold. Trade with Egypt soon brought beautiful gold jewelry to that growing civilization. The pharaohs welcomed the beautiful ornaments, using them as a way to express the superiority of the Egyptian ruling class.
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