Always Pick the RIGHT Colored Gemstone
These days, there can be nothing more exciting than buying a colored gemstone, simply because there has never been a wider array of varieties to choose from. Go to a retail outlet and you will be immersed in radiant and lively colors. If you want an emerald and can’t afford a decent one, you can choose from a green garnet, a green tourmaline or a green tanzanite. People interested in sapphires may go for blue spinels, tourmalines and tanzanites while those interested in rubies can choose from red spinels, red garnets and red tournalines. So these are the best of times, but also the worst of times! Now why is that?
Firstly, because you can commit the blunder of erratically identifying one stone as another. Like I have already mentioned – there is the wide array of stones in every hue. And the fact that we just can’t stop recognizing a stone with its color (simply because that is all we care about!). Now wonder we keep making blunders, without the seller even having to try to fool us.
The second reason is that with technology many synthetics, worthless imitations and hardly detectable doublets and triplets are being made every day. And these are being indiscriminately mixed with original stones and passed on to manufacturers and jewelers. So much is the onslaught that even professionals are being misled or caught unawares for not being up-to-date. So the consumer should feel all the more insecure.
As you know, the only solution to all these problems is to engage the most reputed and qualified jeweler, and relying only on certificates for authenticity.
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