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Jewellery Appraisals

Posted by Anne Neumann - 13/12/05 at 09:12:05 am

We are professional appraisers. We have all the accreditation that we need and more. We keep current with synthetics and treatments. We pay a huge amount of money every year to be insured for the security of our customers’ jewellery.

In other words, we work really hard to do it right: to create a document that accurately and completely describes and fairly evaluates an item of jewellery.

What we find is that what we do is generally regarded by the trade and by the public as useless, inconvenient, too low, too high, unnecessary, inaccurate, too expensive, silly, fraudulent, “not the same as the last one I had”, “not identical to my GIA report”, takes too long, is done too quickly, “is lower than my last one”, is a different grade….etc.

Sometimes it just gets to be a bit much.

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