Colored Gemstones Buying Guide, 4th Edition - Antoinette Matlins

Colored Gemstones: The Antoinette Matlins Buying Guide (4th Edition) is a practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand guide designed to help buyers select, evaluate, and enjoy colored gemstones with confidence.

Updated and expanded, this fourth edition reflects today’s rapidly evolving gemstone market, which now includes new gemstone varieties, innovative cuts, modern buying platforms such as online auctions and TV shopping, as well as increasingly sophisticated treatments and frauds. Written by a trusted industry expert, this guide gives readers the essential knowledge needed to avoid costly mistakes and make informed decisions.

The book explains how to evaluate color, clarity, and value, how to distinguish natural gemstones from enhanced or synthetic stones, and how treatments affect price and desirability. It also covers fraud and misrepresentation, choosing reputable jewelers, selecting appraisers and insurers, and understanding pricing.

Clear, authoritative, and buyer-focused, this book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and other colored gemstones, whether as a collector, jewelry buyer, or enthusiast.

• Author: Antoinette Matlins
• Pages: 242
• Type: Softback
• Topic: Colored gemstone buying & consumer education
• Focus: Evaluating color and clarity, treatments and synthesis, fraud prevention, pricing, and confident purchasing of colored gemstones