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HOW TO BUY A DIAMOND

by Fred Cuellar

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THE PENNULTIMATE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER BY DIAMOND EXPERT FRED CUELLAR, COMPILER OF THE MILLENNIA COLLECTION™.

Whether you're getting engaged or buying for an anniversary, investment or "just because," How to Buy a Diamond will take the pressure and uncertainty out of getting the best diamond for your money.

Newly revised and updated, How to Buy a Diamond is the only book on the market to include wholesalers' secret pricing charts that you, the public, never get to see! The charts are broken down by carat, clarity, and color ―including the various types of color within each color grade.

Fred Cuellar is founder and CEO of Diamond Cutters International and is known as one of the world's top diamond experts.  He is the diamond expert and consultant for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, MSNBC, Men's Health, and The Knot.  He has been the jeweler for 5 US Presidents and the Saudi Royal Family and is the official jeweler for Red Bull and Lionsgate. He has been featured on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC's Today Show, CBS Morning News, CNN, ESPN, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, US Weekly, In Style

as well as over 100 other news and talk shows.

 

He lives in Houston, Texas.

Discover more about Fred Cuellar at his website www.diamondcuttersintl.com.

The Argyle Millennia™
books

By Stephen c. Hofer

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COMING SOON

The ultimate guide to the Argyle Millennia Collection™ by the world's leading Fancy Colored Diamond Expert.  

Mr. Hofer began his career in the earth sciences in 1976 as a geophysicist at the University of Connecticut.  He studied gemology at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and the Gemological Association of Great Britain (GAGB), graduating with distinction. Mr. Hofer is also an accomplished diamond cutter, a graduate of the American Institute of Diamond Cutting (AIDC).

He has the comprehensive treatise, “COLLECTING AND CLASSIFYING COLOURED DIAMONDS”, a 760 page reference book considered to be the most important study of natural coloured diamonds to date. During Mr. Hofer’s thirty plus years studying natural and artificial diamonds, he has worked with some of the most respected people in the diamond business and has examined some of the most important coloured diamonds known to man.

Discover more about Stephen Hofer at his website www.colourdiamondexpert.com.

COLOR ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEMSTONES, 2ND ED.

By JOEL AREM, PHD, F.G.A.

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In 1987, after a second massive (2-year) full time commitment, Joel Arem published the second edition of the COLOR ENCYCLOPEDIA. The new book had far better color reproduction than the first and more than 200 completely new photos. In addition, the text was 100 pages larger and included chapters on synthetic gemstones and thermal measurements. The second edition also contains the first comprehensive tabulation in the gemological literature of precise, machine generated measurements of the color of nearly all gemstone species and varieties. As the only full-color gemstone encyclopedia ever published, the Color Encyclopedia of Gemstones (2nd ed.) has often been called the most-used reference book in its field.

Discover more about Joel Arem on his website www.joelarem.com.

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