This blog gathers what you need to know before buying an emerald, written from the stones that pass through our hands. You will find what drives the price of a stone, what changes with geographic origin from one deposit to the next, and what the treatments stated on a laboratory report actually cover. To assess a stone before buying, our criteria are set out in how to judge an emerald.
The symbolism and the history of the gem have their place too, from the emerald anniversary to the May birthstone. To see the stones themselves, the collection is kept current, each listing carrying its exact weight, its dimensions and the degree of treatment recorded by the laboratory.