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Gemmology Titles

Artificial Gemstones

The Diamond Compendium

Michael O’Donoghue

DeeDee Cunningham

In Artificial Gemstones, Michael O’Donoghue provides the definitive guide to the various manmade substitutes thus enabling anyone handling gems to identify them accurately.

Covering everything from the origin of diamonds and their properties, through mining, the four Cs of grading and marketing, to modern high-tech treatments, fancy coloured diamonds and synthetics, The Diamond Compendium presents the body of diamond knowledge in a simple and understandable way.

978-0-7198-0331-4 229 x 151 mm (p/b)

978-0-7198-0411-3 234 x 156 mm (h/b)

£14.99 296pp

£150.00 888pp

Directory of European Porcelain

Engraving on Precious Metals

Ludwig Danckert

A. Brittain & P. Morton

The Directory of European Porcelain has long been recognized as the most comprehensive book on European porcelain marks, makers and factories. This new edition has been completely revised and substantially expanded. It now contains more than 3,200 keywords and some 5,800 porcelain makers’ marks.

Engraving on Precious Metals is for professionals and others who wish to learn hand-engraving as a hobby or trade. All aspects of the craft are covered exhaustively, including the relatively modern innovation of the high-class machine engraver and for the location and correction of faults.

978-0-7198-0023-8 £30.00 216 x 138 mm (h/b) 960pp

978-0-7198-0022-1 216 x 138 mm (h/b)

£16.99 240pp

The Diamond Formula – Diamond Synthesis: a gemmological perspective

Amanda S. Barnard The Diamond Formula offers the diamond industry and all interested parties a comprehensive text on synthetic diamonds, joining together the research, achievements, theories, experimental and analytical data by recognized experts in the field, while encompassing a gemmological interpretation.

978-0-7198-0381-9 234 x 156 mm (p/b)

£33.99 176pp

Gem and Ornamental Materials of Organic Origin

Maggie Campbell Pedersen Gem and Ornamental Materials of Organic Origin is a unique source of information on this neglected topic of gemmology. Presented in full colour, with over 200 stunning photographs for ease of reference and identification, the book allows material to be recognized by sight, avoiding the usual gemmological tests, which can cause damage.

978-0-7198-0421-2 234 x 165 mm (h/b)

£39.95 282pp

Gem Identification Made Easy

Antoinette L. Matlins & A. C. Bonnanno, FGA, ASA, MGA This is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to use pocket, portable and laboratory instruments to identify diamonds and coloured gems and to separate them from imitations and ‘look-alikes’. The book’s approach is direct and practical, and its style easy to understand. With this highly accessible guide, anyone can begin to master gem identification.

978-0-7198-0251-5 234 x 156 mm (h/b)

£25.00 288pp

Gemmologists’ Compendium (7th Edition)

Gemmology (3rd Edition)

Robert Webster Revised by E. Alan Jobbins

This third edition has been completely revised to cover the latest methods of gem enhancement and identification, as well as the latest test instruments and laboratory techniques.

Gemmology serves as an invaluable reference guide for gemmologists, professionals and students, and is an invaluable text for anyone in the gemmological profession.

This is the seventh edition of a book which has been for years the ‘bible’ of professional and amateur gemmologists, as well as retail jewellers. This edition has been completely revised and updated by E. Alan Jobbins, Keeper of Minerals and Gemstones at the Geological Museum in London for thirty-five years.

978-0-7198-0291-1 198 x 129 mm (h/b)

£17.99 240pp

Peter G. Read

978-0-7198-0361-1 234 x 156 mm (p/b)

£25.99 336pp

Gems (6th Edition)

Identification of Gemstones

Jewellery Making for Profit

Michael O’Donoghue

Michael O’Donoghue and Louise Joyner

James E. Hickling

Since it was published in 1962, Gems has become universally recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative treatise on gem materials in the English language. Now in its sixth edition, it has been revised for relevance to today’s practice. It includes an expanded encyclopaedic section, and offers a descriptive account of all gem materials used as ornament, along with their synthetic counterparts and the materials used over the centuries to imitate them.

A comprehensive reference guide to gem and ornamental materials, which outlines all the features a gem tester has to know before making an identification. The experienced author team describe not only each natural gem species, but also their synthetic counterparts, and the materials used as imitations, demonstrating how to avoid costly mistakes.

Here, for the first time, is a book that tells you how to go about making jewellery for profit.

This book tells you how, once you have come up with an idea that will be popular to the public, to devise a means of manufacturing it that is efficient enough to leave a profit margin after all the costs of manufacture have been deducted.

978-0-7198-0341-3 234 x 156 mm (h/b)

978-0-7198-0351-2 234 x 156 mm (p/b)

978-0-7198-0092-4 £17.99 216 x 138 mm (h/b) 176pp

£90.00 904pp

£43.99 328pp

Gemmology Titles

Jewellery Manufacture and Repair

Legendary Gems

Eric Bruton

Illustrated throughout with over 280 line drawings, this book will prove invaluable to any jeweller – professional or amateur – who wants a comprehensive reference book which covers the entire field of jewellery manufacture and repair.

This absorbing and often astonishing history of legendary gems is told with style and wit by expert gemmologist Eric Bruton. Amid legends and intrigue are hard facts about gems – classification, valuation and engraving.

Prospecting and mining details, plus the inside (and sometimes sordid) stories of how enormous stones were cut and dispersed in great secrecy, make this book a ‘must’ read for the gemmologist and jeweller.

978-0-7198-0052-8 £15.99 210 x 148 mm (h/b) 224pp

978-0-7198-0401-4 228 x 172 mm (p/b)

Charles Jarvis

£9.99 256pp

Practical Gemmology

Practical Jewellery Repair

DeeDee Cunningham Re-written and expanded, this completely updated book includes new material on high-tech treatments and synthetic diamonds as well as instrumentation, theory, testing and gemstone properties.

For the jewellery repairer, ‘the ideal is the repair that cannot be detected’. The means of achieving that result, says author James Hickling, may not be the orthodox one, so a textbook for him is more of a personal guide book showing the shortcuts and avoiding the pitfalls. Yet in Practical Jewellery Repair the author provides much more than this, putting on paper for the first time detailed information – based on his wide experience – about the methods and techniques of the professional repairer and restorer of jewellery.

978-0-7198-0431-1 234 x 156 mm (h/b)

978-0-7198-0082-5 £17.99 216 x 138 mm (h/b) 192pp

WJames E. Hickling

£25.99 336pp

The Retail Jewellers Guide (7th Edition)

A Silversmith’s Manual

Kenneth Blakemore Revised by Eddie Stanley

This is a practical, comprehensive guide that will appeal to anyone who works with silver, from student and specialist craftsmen, to designers, salesmen and collectors. Cuzner teaches the theory and application of silversmithing through a series of exercises. The creation of bowls, boxes, beakers and basins is covered, as are the decorative techniques of applied wire, chasing and piercing.

The most practical and informative reference book for the jewellery trade, The Retail Jeweller’s Guide provides all the information on necessary areas of product knowledge required by the professional jeweller.

It is also an invaluable text for all students studying for the NAG JET and NAG Gemmology courses, and the new summary and learning section will enhance the textbook elements of this new edition.

978-0-7198-0033-7 234 x 156 mm (p/b)

£32.00 336pp

Bernard Cuzner

978-0-7198-0062-7 216 x 138 mm (h/b)

£15.99 208pp

Synthetic, Imitation & Treated Gemstones

Michael O’Donoghue Today buyers cannot be sure whether or not a gemstone is man-made, whether its colour has been produced artificially and whether it will survive life in a piece of jewellery. This book enables gemstone and jewellery buyers to find out for themselves.

978-0-7198-0371-0 234 x 156 mm (p/b)

£50.99 214pp

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Artificial Gemstones Diamond Compendium, The Diamond Formula, The - Diamond Synthesis: a gemmological perspective Directory of European Porcelain Engraving on Precious Metals Gem and Ornamental Materials of Organic Origin Gem Identification Made Easy Gemmologists’ Compendium (7th Edition) Gemmology (3rd Edition) Gems (6th Edition) Identification of Gemstones Jewellery Making for Profit Jewellery Manufacture and Repair Legendary Gems Practical Gemmology Practical Jewellery Repair Retail Jewellers Guide, The (7th Edition) Silversmith’s Manual, A Synthetic, Imitation & Treated Gemstones