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AGTA Spectrum Awards: A Judge's Insight
Benjamin Macklowe, Macklowe Gallery Share    
What a great weekend I had as a judge for the American Gem Trade Association's "Spectrum Awards!" I was asked by Robert Bentley (www.robertbentelygemstones.com), Chairman of AGTA, to be one of six
judges for this prestigious juried competition. Once a year, the members of AGTA submit newly-designed jewelry and exceptional unset gemstones for blind judging in categories as varied as "Best Phenomenonal Stone" and "Best in Bridal." MORE
AGTA Spectrum Awards™ saw an increase in platinum designs
Diamond World
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During the 26th annual AGTA Spectrum Awards™ recently held, the choice of platinum as a jewelry metal seemed to be on the rise with jewelry designers, reports say. Of the total number of 420 jewellery designs submitted for the competition this year, there was an 11 percent increase in the number of platinum
designs.
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JA warns industry about 60 Minutes Segment
JCK Online
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Jewelers of America sent out a letter Monday
in an effort to prepare the jewelry industry for the upcoming CBS 60 Minutes segment that focuses on the issue of artisanal gold mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The letter was forwarded throughout the industry and was obtained by JCK through JBT.
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Employing advanced light refraction science, Optix® stones are precisely cut with concave faceting to reflect significantly more light than stones with flat faceting. The result is a stone with unmatched brilliance.
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Going gaga for green
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Any fancy color green diamond is a rare treat to behold. Natural large green diamonds are almost unheard of. So attendees at Sotheby's Nov. 17th auction in Geneva are in for a once in a lifetime glimpse. Up for
bidding will be a 2.52 carat cushion shaped natural green diamond so rare no one can calculate what the market will bring for this beauty.
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Green is hot for fall
Chic Gloss
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Green is the hot color this Fall - from emerald to jade to light mint, green hues are showing up in the latest beauty, jewelry and fashion accessories. Check out this list of must-haves in fall's killer
color.
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Will men wear pearls?
Luxist
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Will real men wear pearls? Male model and reality television star Marcus Schenkenberg hopes so. Schenkenberg has
partnered with German pearl specialist on YOU ROCK by Marcus Schenkenberg a line of pearl jewelry for men.
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Louis Vuitton Jewelry
Firstwater News
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To create something completely, utterly new is the challenge of every designer. But even more so for jewellery designers, whose imaginations are reigned in by the realities of production. But then along comes
Louis Vuitton, which not only gave Lorenz Baumer the freedom to pursue his creative fantasies in designing the new L'Ame du Voyage collection. It supported him when those dreams meant pushing its goldsmiths and diamond cutters to the edge.
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Member Benefit: FedEx Rates Update
Just in time for holiday delivery, the FedEx Declared Value Exception rates have been reduced even more for AGTA Members! Now FedEx Express can accept U.S. and international shipments with a declared value up to $50,000 per package at discounted rates. More
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Cheap jewelry imports vex artisans in
Southwest
The Wall Street Journal
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A tsunami of cheap imported jewelry -
designed to look like authentic Native American art - is flooding the Southwest U.S., bamboozling tourists, irking law-enforcement officials and infuriating real Indian artists. Phony Indian crafts have been around for decades, but recently both the quantity and the quality of the fakes have soared, according to Native American artists, veteran retailers and state prosecutors.
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Treasure on show in London as another trove found
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The most important treasure trove found in Britain for decades went on display in London on Tuesday, the same day that another discovery valued at $1.6 million was reported found in Scotland. The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered by metal detectorist Terry Herbert in central England in July,
comprises over 1,500 mainly gold and silver items and has been compared in importance to the famous Sutton Hoo burial site unearthed in 1939.
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Royals to sell family heirlooms
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The Duke of Kent and his siblings are to sell family heirlooms at auction. The auction of 200 lots at Christie's salerooms in London includes jewellery, paintings and furniture.
The pieces once belonged to Prince George, the former Duke of Kent, and his wife Princess Marina.
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Fall issue of Gems & Gemology exaimines Tavernier blue diamond
Diamond News
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The Fall 2009 issue of Gems & Gemology, released Oct. 5, offers a crystallographic analysis of the Tavernier Blue diamond, as well as a new gemological test to detect HPHT treatment in type I diamonds. Other articles cover ammolite production in Southern Alberta, Canada; polymer-filled aquamarine; the discovery of gem-quality yellow-green haüyne from Tanzania; and aquamarine from northern
Italy.
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AGL changes terminology of its ruby reports
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The American Gemological Laboratory (AGL) held a meeting in New York, and has discussed changes in the terminology it uses to describe rubies. Reports add that it has decided to apply the term "heating residue" in place of the term "flux-type enhancement," when identifying the type of treatment used for rubies, when the rubies are heated for
color modifications and heal fissures. The lab has also decided to use
the term "composite ruby" when distinguishing lead glass-treated rubies from regular heated rubies.
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