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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Bought for a friend, she nearly didn't get it! Lovely clear photographs. Good descriptions and explanations about cut, clarity and colour of gems including natural green and yellow Diamonds and green Garnets. Groups that different gems belong to, hardness scale, where, and how, they are mined. Also how heat treatment is used to enhance colours. I can thoroughly recommend it.
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66 of 67 people found the following review helpful
FINALLY!
20 Nov 2006
Format:Hardcover
I'd been looking for a book like this for what seemed like FOR-EV-ARRRR!!!
As a jewelry artist, I've always wanted to add some gemstone books to my huge jewelry-related book collection, but all I could ever find were ones that seemed to be written only for gemstone collectors & science nerds--not that there's ANYTHING bad about stone collectors OR science nerds--it was just that these books never really focused much (if at all) on the jewelry-related aspect of gemstones!!
This book definitely fills that huge (and what you'd think would be obvious) void that all those other books seem to have missed.
I am hoping the book will be revised in the future to include more stones, and maybe fix a few things that were left out..
For example: in the list of U.S. locations where Tourmaline mines exist, Maine was left out!! :-o
But the flaws I see in this book are very minor--overall I am very satisfied with it, and I am very thankful to Judith Crowe for finally making the book that I was searching for!! :-)
As a jewelry artist, I've always wanted to add some gemstone books to my huge jewelry-related book collection, but all I could ever find were ones that seemed to be written only for gemstone collectors & science nerds--not that there's ANYTHING bad about stone collectors OR science nerds--it was just that these books never really focused much (if at all) on the jewelry-related aspect of gemstones!!
This book definitely fills that huge (and what you'd think would be obvious) void that all those other books seem to have missed.
I am hoping the book will be revised in the future to include more stones, and maybe fix a few things that were left out..
For example: in the list of U.S. locations where Tourmaline mines exist, Maine was left out!! :-o
But the flaws I see in this book are very minor--overall I am very satisfied with it, and I am very thankful to Judith Crowe for finally making the book that I was searching for!! :-)
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Love this book!
5 Jan 2007
Format:Hardcover
A beautiful book with plenty of colorful photographs of stones and jewelery pieces. Very well illustrated and easy to follow. Author offers some useful advice on how to set gemstones to bring out the best color. However, I believe that the table showing on Carat weights for genuine stones (Page 29) is not correct. Nevertheless, overall rating is still a 5!!!
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
All in all, a good and useful book
29 Mar 2007
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All in all, this is a good book. It covers all the gemstone families, and the stones in each. It starts with a general overview of the creation of gemstones, their history, how they are mined and cut. It then describes the stones. A very handy section is where they discus treatments and immitations. Another good point is the plentiful pictures of 99% of the stones that they mention. The last section reviews working with and apprasing gemstones.
My only complaint is this: The overview at the beginning is general and simple/easy to understand. They don't go to deep into the science or use some of the terms they use later in the descriptions of them gems. Its a bit anoying to have to figure out or look up scientific words. The good thing is that it didnt happen often.
My only complaint is this: The overview at the beginning is general and simple/easy to understand. They don't go to deep into the science or use some of the terms they use later in the descriptions of them gems. Its a bit anoying to have to figure out or look up scientific words. The good thing is that it didnt happen often.
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