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| Amazing Art Deco Ring Available Here |
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| Brilliant Earth Emerald |
I read practically anything I can find. One of my favorite sources of reading is science or health news. It is one of the few places where you see happy stories these days. At any given moment there is someone, somewhere in the world making a breakthrough in a field of study. Granted that breakthrough might be something like "The Brand Personalities of Rocks" available for your reading pleasure
With articles often come advertisements. It is how they pay the people who write them. I try to keep up with current trends in jewelry for obvious reasons. So if something pops up (no pun intended) with an interesting piece I will click on it.
Today I clicked on the listing for an emerald similar to the one shown above. Available through
Brilliant Earth for the low price of $7,750. I am not qualified enough to tell you what quality this emerald is, but from what I can tell neither are they. There is no certification with this stone, no list of attributes that specify why it is worth the price, there isn't even any information on what treatments this piece has undergone.
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| Certified Emerald from Ebay available Here |
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| Untreated certified emerald from Ebay available Here |
A three minute search of Ebay turned up several examples that leave Brilliant Earth's option in the dust. Including the the 1.66ct beauty to the left priced at $1328.00. A minute longer and I found the beauty to the right (above) priced at $904.80.
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| Amazing Art Deco Ring in 18k gold available here |
I respect Brilliant Earth. I respect their choice to donate a portion of their profits and their program to be
Beyond Conflict Free. If more jewelers chose this it would revolutionize diamond and gemstone processing. But there is an easier way if Conflict and ecologically friendly stones are what you are looking for. Literally millions of gemstones are taken out of gold jewelry every year and sold off in batches. And my personal favorite, buy the stone already in the ring. The ring to the right hardly took any time at all.
People have a strange aversion to recycling jewelry. For some reason we are okay with recycling just about everything else. Paper, got that, plastic, yup that one has a program. Old batteries, just found that one. Old phones, yup they can be used for metal apparently. The rise of the pawn store gold buyers has led to the idea that we can recycle precious metals (particularly when we get a decent amount of cash). Running an Etsy store has opened up an entirely new world for me. I had no idea how detailed and amazing antique jewelry could be.
There is literally no program that is more environmentally friendly then buying vintage. Even lab grown diamonds take resources to produce. Vintage pieces are unique, they are one of a kind and they are very, very environmentally friendly. I wish I could say that was my main reason for buying them. If nothing else, it is a nice perk.
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