Diamond Fashion Jewelery Collection 37

Diamond Fashion Jewelery.

By Aamir Mannan.

COLLECTING,HANDLING, AND HOUSING GEMSTONES.

Though the majority of readcrs may be already familiar with the elementary equipment which the dealer or trained gemmologist uses in handling and housing gemstone, a brief desription and some advice on the fundamental tools and techniques maybe valuable to those who are as yet unaccustomed to coping withloose stones. 

To watch an expert sort through a collection of stone on his cloth-topped desk-picking up selected specimens with his tongs to scrutinise closely with a 

powerful lens, scooping up those required with a small shovel, and shooting them neatly into a stone paper-one might con-sider the whole process extremely simple, But anyone attempting for the first time to follow this routine would find each stage full of un-expected snags, and would feel himself as clumsy and inept as does a 

youth when attempting to fill and light his first pipe. There can of course be no real substitute for experience in such matters, for when it comes to manual dexterity it is the hand as the brain that has to learn. But at least one can make things easier by some advice on the selection of tools and suggestions on the best way to use them.