Birthstone Spotlight: September Sapphire
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John And Laura Ramsey Are Highly Recognized For Offering World Class Jewelry
John And Laura Ramsey are some of the most respected names in the industry of gems and jewelry. Their passion for jewelry making can be evaluated from the very fact that they spent almost twenty years of their life in the wholesale gem and jewelry trade, traveling to various gem mining districts of the world, including East Africa, Thailand, Brazil, and Sri Lanka. They later appeared on TV and in no time became familiar faces to the television home shopping audiences in countries like the US, Canada, and Great Britain. Their unique style of offering information about gems and telling about their products immediately caught the attention of viewers. Their program grew quickly and led to an overwhelming response from customers in all three countries.
Birthstone Spotlight: March Aquamarine
Aquamarine is one of my favorite gems. Of course with me, talking about my favorite gemstones is like asking a parent about their favorite child—whichever one I’m thinking about or talking about at the moment is the favorite. Still, aquamarine is right up there in my true favorites.
Aquamarine—one of the many faces of beryl
One of the interesting things about aquamarine is its true rarity—due to the unique trace minerals that have combined with its underlying base mineral, Beryl, to produce its beautiful blue tone…
Birthstone Spotlight: February Amethyst
In past blogs about birthstones we have been talking about gems that have their gemstone “label” in common with their mineral names. Gems like Garnet, Topaz, and Tourmaline are also the mineral name. In contrast, Amethyst is a color name for quartz, which is a mineral. Amethyst is the quartz in its purple color.
Quartz itself comes in at least several colors: citrine (yellow, orange and red), amethyst (varying shades of purple), ouro Verde (a chartreuse color), whisky quartz (brownish), smoky quartz (brownish gray), prasiolite (light bluish green), and Ametrine (naturally occurring mix of purple and yellowish gold. Some of the colors occur in nature and some are induced by man. Amethyst occurs naturally in nature.
If quartz itself were a birthstone we would be talking about all of the foregoing colors. But amethyst is plenty wonderful all by itself…
John And Laura Ramsey – Best In The Field Of Gemstone Jewelry
Gems cut by John Ramsey are shown in the prime museums such as The American Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution, The Royal Ontario Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, The Canadian National Museum, and many others. The top class gemstone jewelry by John and Laura Ramsey has always been a product of their combined efforts. Mrs. Laura Ramsey has an amazing ability for designing, and Mr. John Ramsey is highly renowned for his exceptional gem cutting skills and great techniques.
Birthstone Spotlight: November Topaz
Topaz is truly a fantastic birthstone. The trouble with topaz is that everybody knows about topaz but very few people know the correct facts about topaz. This blog post is John and Laura Ramsey’s best attempt to correct that.
Birthstone Spotlight: August Peridot
Peridot is one of my favorite gems, not only for its beauty, but because there are so many interesting stories regarding peridot through the ages…
One of the earliest peridot mines to be exploited is the Egyptian Island of Zeberget in the Red Sea. My friend and mineralogical guru from years gone by, Dr. Peter Bancroft, did some “rock-hounding” for peridot on the island many years ago. At the time, he was allowed there as a co-traveler of Dr. Edward Gubelin the famous Swiss gemologist…
John and Laura Ramsey Offer An Elegant Collection of Gems and Jewelry
John and Laura Ramsey are famous personalities serving the jewelry industry for many years. They are recognized faces to television home shopping audiences in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Through their program, they educated clients on important information about gems. They followed a unique approach to educate clients on each aspect and this style of bringing information to the audience found great success with their viewers. They are passionate about enhancing jewelry collectors experience. Both John and Laura insist on quality and fair dealing with the customers.
The Argyle Pink Jubilee Diamond
Fancy colored diamonds have always captured, well, peoples’ fancy! So when Rio Tinto announced that a large pink diamond was discovered at their Argyle mine in the East Kimberly Region of Western Australia, I could hear the collective sighs of delight.
Fancy diamonds include the colors red, blue, purple, yellow, brown and of course pink, with varying color grades of each. Now more than ever fancy colored diamonds are receiving attention. Collectors vie for ownership, museums delight in displaying such diamonds and famous celebrities choose the pink diamond as the ultimate engagement ring…
The Beauty and Lore of Aquamarine by Laura Ramsey
As a personal favorite, Aquamarine is high on our gemstone list. John and I have acquired and designed, respectively, many incredible Aquamarines for collectors throughout the years. Its remarkable beauty has won over so many that it became the alternate birthstone for March.
John and I have always had a fascination and direct connection with Aquamarine. Traveling to Brazil for 35 + years has brought us to the Aquamarine mines directly. Thousands of carats of fine Aquamarine have passed through our hands to find their way into major collections.
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