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Recommended Books and Reference on Gems and Jewelry

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  1. BookBookUnderstanding Jewellery - 3rd EditionBook
    By David Bennett
    Excellent volume on the history of jewelry!

  2. Secrets of the Gem TradeBook
    Secrets of the Gem Trade: The Connoisseur's Guide to Precious GemstonesBook
    by Richard Wise
    A master's guide on learning to recognize the qualities that seperate a cut stone from a precious gem.

  3. Gem PhotgraphyBook Book

    Photographing Minerals, Fossils, and Lapidary Materials
    by Jeffrey A. Scovil Book
    This book is written by a photographer of minerals who is very well known to readers of periodicals such as the Mineralogical Record.
    It is a very useful guide to photographing minerals, fossils and gems.

  4. BookBook
    Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Book
    Used as a text in the Barbara Smigel, PhD, GG's Free Online Gemology Course.

 

 

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