Diamond Handbook: How to Identify & Evaluate Diamonds, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition

The Diamond Handbook: 3rd Edition updates jewelry professionals and serious diamond buyers on new developments in diamond grading, treatments, synthetic diamonds, imitations, branded diamonds and fancy-color diamonds. Using close-up photos, it shows how to make visual judgments about clarity, transparency, brilliance and cut quality. As the Journal of Gemmology has stated in its review of the previous edition, the Diamond Handbook “gives the trade reader virtually all the essential informat...