Yes I was,always led,to believe that too.
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I bought some from JM, which 'is' Gemporia, but that was some time ago. And I could actually see the bugs. If I recall one had 3 flies in.
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If they have their own lab, then that concerns me.
As for the Assay office, that's for valuations and Hall marking I believe rather than grading stones.
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So if everything is done Inhouse, then you could be buying anything unless you're knowledgeable and have your own refractometer
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Maybe more people are questioning their integrity.
Tonight on Gemporia with mouthpiece Lindsey, they were selling an A5 spiral notebook. But because they called it Kimbie Amethyst Notebook the final supersonic price was £9.99. She was screaming about it. What the hell has a notebook got to do with jewellery.
I pity Toby and Jake, they're taking Lindsey to Tucson. Hope they keep her mouth taped up
Yes, that's right. The Assay Office is a quasi- governmental "weights & measures" type body that requires (and allows, where the item doesn't meet statutory minimum weights) manufacturers of precious metal goods to have their items tested and proved to be what they claim. Items that meet the required standard under the Hallmarking Act are then stamped by the Assay Office, which includes a mark identifying which of the current four UK offices undertook the assay.
Safeguard is a separate limited company, owned by and located within the Birmingham Assay Office, which provides non-statutory valuations of various types. They take into account market prices across the industry, which qualifies any valuation somewhat of course. As pointed out on another thread, a Grandidierite ring valued ten years ago would probably be worth less today. So a Safeguard valuation (which Gemporia uses to calculate its auction "Start Price") is a value fixed in time. Probably not as relevant to Gems TV items, which are newly manufactured, I do wonder how old some of the Safeguard-calculated "Start Prices" are on Gem Collector!
AnchorCert is the laboratory testing facility within the Birmingham Assay Office group of offerings. If we assume fairly that TGGC is not in the business of outright fraud, their authenticity cards will be perfectly fine for mineral identification purposes (allowing for their silly naming - Lehrite, Tulelei etc) and weights. Where they are questionable is on the other - perhaps more important - aspects such as cut and clarity but they're no different in that respect to other retailers or even other laboratories. For example, a diamond grading from EGL might be suspect when compared to the same from GIA.
Maybe more people are questioning their integrity.
Tonight on Gemporia with mouthpiece Lindsey, they were selling an A5 spiral notebook. But because they called it Kimbie Amethyst Notebook the final supersonic price was £9.99. She was screaming about it. What the hell has a notebook got to do with jewellery.
I pity Toby and Jake, they're taking Lindsey to Tucson. Hope they keep her mouth taped up
And I saw a bit of that. Got bored of waiting for the price.
