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...GIRL'S GUIDE TO BUYING DIAMONDS: How to Choose, Evaluate, and Buy the Diamond You Want By Randi Molofsky Quarry Books Everything shoppers should know?including the old cut, color, carat and clarity issues?is hit upon in this easy-to-read manual about a girl's best friend...
...minute I see a stone whether I want it or not.? It's an assurance he says he has honed over the 40-odd years he has been dealing with diamonds, buying and selling some of the most expensive and famous stones in the world, including the 100.57-carat Star of America, an octagonal certified D-flawless; La Favorite, a historic 50.15-carat D-color, and the Idol's Eye, a 70.20-carat Golconda diamond with an extremely rare blue tint...
...Graff's favorite stones is the Graff blue, an extremely rare, 3-carat round blue diamond that he has bought and sold three times over the past 25 years. The first time he saw it was at auction, where it sold to someone else for $180,000. Years later he spotted it on the hand of a client but couldn't buy it until after the client died, and his widow offered it to Graff for a much higher price. He eventually sold it to a Japanese client who offered $1.5 million. Fifteen years later, the same client wanted...
...buried in Kazanlak with the golden mask was likely at the top of it. The mask is one of the highlights of the collection. Weighing in at 672 g and made of 23.5-carat gold, it has a menacing expression, and its mustache, beard and small locks of hair are rendered in exquisite detail. "There have been other gold masks discovered, but all of them are made of foil-thin gold," Kitov says. "Gold masks with this shape and weight are absolutely unknown." He believes the mask was owned by a Thracian ruler, who, in a ritual that has been...
...most useful pin and has a successful relationship with people," Westwood says. "They're sexy, and the way I have put everything together is a little cruel, a little S&M." Still, affordability is in the eye of the beholder: a safety pin with a 0.05-carat diamond will set you back $525, while an arrow necklace studded with 73 diamonds costs...