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The Pearl Book, July 2002
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Jewelry & Gems at Auction, June 2002
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JEWELRY & GEMS AT AUCTION
By: Antoinette Matlins

Everything you need to know before you buy--or sell--gems and jewelry at auction.

Gemstone Press
June 2002
352 pages
ISBN: 0943763290
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Non-Fiction

A source of expert guidance to help you enter today's fastest-growing marketplace for gems and jewelry. This definitive guide to buying and selling at auction covers both the unique risks and opportunities to be found--how to make a profit on yesterday's treasures or find a valuable treasure of you own.

Entertaining, informative, and packed with tips from an "insider," this practical, easy-to-understand guide makes available--for the first time--detailed information on:

What distinguishes auction buying and selling from other methods

How to buy and sell at acution: The rules of the game What you need to know before bidding on:
* Diamonds
* Colored gemstones
* Pearls
* Gold and platinum

Design and style: Great jewelry periods and great jewelers Special concerns wehn buying and selling on Internet auction sites
How to avoid the pitfalls when buying and selling at auction
What auctions do guarantee, and how to protect yourself against what they don't
...and much more.

With comprehensive price charts and auction results, as well as resource informationon auction houses and websites, Jewelry & Gems at Auction is a book no potential auction buyer or seller can afford to be without.

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