A recent trip to Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter became an unexpected buying expedition for a wonderful diamond solitaire. Not an intentional purchase, but following a short conversation with one of the country’s leading purveyors of diamonds, he was gracious enough to allow me to view one of his latest acquisitions.
Following his recent trip to the Netherlands, he bought many diamonds in Antwerp from the trading centre. This specific diamond is of exquisite quality and a rare size that it not usually found on a British high street every day. It came in the form of a magnificent brilliant round cut diamond weighing in at a whopping 6.35 carats. The diamond had been gemmology tested in the main laboratory in Birmingham and the analysis report came back very satisfying to say the least.
The diamond was electronically graded colour Hand clarity very, very slight inclusion one (VVSI 1) indicating that the inclusion was a crystal feathering on one of the adjoining facets. The girdle was graded as medium to slightly thick with an excellent cut grading and very good polish and symmetry. The diamond was then set into a classic platinum four-claw collet mount and set onto a 950-platinum tulip shanked band.
The size of the diamond with such excellent graded quality does not appear on the open sales market every day. We enquired as to the trade price and bought it for our shop window display.
I do like the challenge of finding a rare diamond. The size alone determines that this not readily available except from a select few jewellers. We are very pleased to have the solitaire to form part of our diamond collection in our window display. The prices of our diamond range vary from the very affordable to refreshingly expensive.
At Juels’ Limited we are always seeking to improve our stock of fine jewellery, we are therefore always in the market for buying new items, especially the more unique items.
Our doors are open from 9am until 4.30pm from Tuesday to Saturday and our buying process cannot easier. We will assess any item of jewellery you may care to sell; all metal items can be tested without harm by utilising our XRF analytical gauge, we can determine the purity, metal composition and carat of any metal. We will then offer a buying price immediately. Once a sale price has been agreed we will pay our customers out by either cash, cheque or bank transfer or any combination of the three to suit the customers’ requirements.
For more information on valuations, the sale of any jewellery items and bullion investments, simply call James in store or drop by.
This column is sponsored by Juels’ Limited, London Street, Norwich.