Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Buying Guide, 3rd Edition - Renée Newman G.G.

Ruby, Sapphire & Emerald Buying Guide: How to Identify, Evaluate & Select These Gems (3rd Edition) by Renée Newman, G.G. is a comprehensive, full-color guide designed to help buyers, collectors, and professionals confidently identify and evaluate rubies, sapphires, and emeralds.

This extensively updated third edition includes 173 new photographs and reflects the latest developments in gemstone treatments, jewelry styles, grading systems, and geographic sources. Using detailed close-up images, the guide teaches readers how to visually assess clarity, transparency, cut quality, brilliance, and color, while also explaining how lighting conditions can affect a gemstone’s appearance.

The book also provides clear guidance on understanding laboratory reports, finding reputable appraisers and gemological laboratories, detecting synthetic stones and imitations, and properly caring for rubies, sapphires, and emeralds. Its practical, real-world approach makes it equally valuable for professionals in the gem trade and informed consumers.

Highly praised by both the Journal of Gemmology and Library Journal, this guide is widely regarded as an essential reference for anyone who buys, sells, studies, or simply appreciates fine colored gemstones.

• Author: Renée Newman, G.G.
• Pages: 157
• Type: Softback
• Topic: Colored gemstone buying & identification
• Focus: Evaluating rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, understanding treatments, grading systems, lab reports, imitations, and professional selection