Best Quality Custom Jewelry in Uniondale


Best Quality Custom Jewelry in Uniondale


About Larry Woods – World Famous AGTA Gem Cutter.

With almost 40 years of gem cutting experience, Larry Woods is internationally recognized as a master gem cutter and artist having won many prestigious awards for his original gem cutting, carvings, and gem designs. “My passion and love for colored gems and gem cutting is in revealing the most beautiful, most brilliant gem from each rare piece of gem rough. I am very grateful for the opportunity of expressing creativity and craft in the fashioning and evolution of these rare and precious expressions of nature.” Woods cut the Havey Tourmaline from a terminated crystal taken from one of the 2013 pockets. The original crystal weighed 75 carats (approximately 15 grams). Like most gem-quality tourmaline from Havey Quarry, it was a rich blue-green and featured fine fractures lining its surface. The interior of the crystal, however, was flawless. Woods recognized the potential of the stone the first time he saw it during a visit to the quarry in the fall of 2013:
[Morrison] brought out flat after flat of beautiful blue green tourmaline crystals and gem rough. One piece stood out far and above all the other specimens in his collection, an exceptional 15 gram gem tourmaline crystal termination. The clarity, color, size, and shape of the piece made it a perfect candidate to be cut into a world class gem, and was to that date, one of the largest and finest pieces Jeff had ever found. I realized immediately that this was a very special piece. …My inspiration for cutting the piece followed a fairly traditional formula—a Barion style facet pattern—designed to produce the most brilliant finished gem while maintaining the greatest weight retention from the rough crystal. I especially wanted to bring out the beautiful blue green color of the material. I also decided to add a modern twist to the design: engraved, carved, high-polished grooves in the pavilion of the stone to increase the overall brilliance and light reflection in the finished gem. I am truly grateful to everyone who had a hand in this project, and I am honored to have received the opportunity to work with this incredible gem.Woods and Jeffrey Morrison credit Francis Seay’s generosity for bringing the gem and crystals to the Smithsonian.
AWARDS
Pictured at Top above: A 9.15ct Zultanite Medicine Wheel Cut fancy cut.
Pictured Below a sample of Larry’s Work on Citrine, Aquamarine, Yellow Beryl Gemstones.
 
1991
1st place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Combination Cuts- Malaya Garnet Medicine Wheel™
1998
3rd place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Carving- Deco Blue Chalcedony Carving
2004
2nd Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Suites & Pairs- 11 piece, 32.25ct. TW, Spessartite Garnet suite
Medicine Cross™
2nd Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Combination Cuts- 31.37ct. Spessartite Garnet
Medicine Wheel™
2005
2nd Place Lapidary Journal Gemmys Awards
Specialty Cuts- 103ct Bolivian Amethyst,
Abstract Organic carving
2006
1st Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Combination Cuts- 26.19ct. Golden Beryl
Four Directions Oval™
1st Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Carving- 49.72ct. Green Tourmaline
Abstract Organic carving
2007
3rd Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Carving- 61.11ct. Rubellite Tourmaline
Abstract Organic carved bead
2008
2nd Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Combination Cuts- 52.12ct Nigerian Aquamarine
Four Directions Radiant™
2009
1st Place AGTA Cutting Edge Awards
Carving – 40.47ct Lightning Ridge Crystal Opal
Abstract Organic Carving
Four Directions Radiant™
Mark Gronlund recently won the 2018 AGTA (American Gem Trade Association) 1st place award for Innovative Faceting a 96ct Blue Topaz with a Round Spiral Brilliant Cut.
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Mark started in the jewelry industry as a self-taught goldsmith. His early work consisted of fabrication, model making, centrifuge casting, stone setting and finishing. Mark began his work as a professional lapidary in 1995. Self-taught in the discipline, Mark quickly earned him mark in the industry by winning the “Cutting Edge” portion of the 1996 AGTA Spectrum Awards, winning a total of three awards his first year. The following two years yielded five more AGTA Cutting Edge Awards. 
Once people acquire a Mark Gronlund creation, they never see gems the same way again. That’s the passionate assessment of many retailers who carry Gronlund’s work.  
Gronlund’s signature concave-faceted gems have delighted consumers since he ventured into the field in the early 1990s.   
Mark also won the  AGTA’s Annual Cutting Edge faceting competition which Gronlund entered  with his 1997 and 1998 submissions.  This placed Gronlund squarely in the realm of America’s most talented lapidary artists.
His gems have a depth you don’t normally see.  Mark has indicated he always cuts his gemstones for brilliance rather than to save weight. People who have bought a Gronlund gem become immediate collectors.   A Gronlund gem typically has uniform, pure color and uncharacteristic brilliance. His concave faceting, particularly in the gem’s pavilion, increases reflection and refraction because light waves reflect off of convex surfaces internally.  He also places curved facets along the crown and table of some gems for even stronger brilliance and color.  When you see the intricate patterns and precisely interlocking facets, you will think Gronlund must be a “math whiz”.




Uniondale, NY Custom Jewelry Dealer
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Uniondale Custom Jewelry in New York

Uniondale, NY Custom Jewelry Dealer
Jewelry And Gems Inc.
405 RXR Plaza, Suite 405 Uniondale, NY 11556 
(646) 645-2453
https://mm-fine.com
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The Value of Jewelry Is Supported by an Aprpraisal

Why Should I get an Appraisal?

Consulting with an expert appraiser and or gemologist is an important thing to do if you have valuable jewelry.  An appraisal provides a detailed description of the item including metal purity, gram weight, finish, setting, trademark, condition of item, shapes of all diamonds and gemstones with measurements, estimated weights and color/clarity, the determined value and a GIA Graduate Gemologist’s signature with seal.
The American Society of Appraisers (ASA) is the largest multi-discipline organization representing appraisers.The society was founded in 1936 and is one of the eight major appraisal groups that founded The Appraisal Foundation.
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The ASA comprises appraisal review and management, valuers of business, gems and jewelry, machinery and technical specialties, personal property and real property. Candidates—who must have a four-year university degree or its equivalent—are eligible for the Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) designation after completing the following: five years of documented appraisal experience; testing in their field or specialty; the submission of two appraisal reports to the society’s International Board of Examiners for review; successful completion of the Principles of Valuation education program; and successful completion of the 15-hour Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) course with examination. A lesser level of designation—Accredited Member or AM—requires only two years of documented appraisal experience in addition to all of the other requirements.
An appraisal provides a detailed description of the item including metal purity, gram weight, finish, setting, trademark, condition of item, shapes of all diamonds and gemstones with measurements, estimated weights and color/clarity, the determined value and a GIA Graduate Gemologist’s signature with seal.
Appraisers in the ASA are subject to a mandatory re-accreditation process every five years. To re-certify they must provide proof of professional growth through continuing education, participation in society activities, and the completion of updated USPAP courses. Publishing articles in professional journals and valuation or specialty-related speaking engagements also provide ASA appraisers with re-certification points.

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History of Jewelry

Humans have used jewellery for a number of different reasons:

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functional, generally to fix clothing or hair in place
as a marker of social status and personal status, as with a wedding ring
as a signifier of some form of affiliation, whether ethnic, religious or social
to provide talismanic protection (in the form of amulets)[4]
as an artistic display
as a carrier or symbol of personal meaning – such as love, mourning, or even luck
Most cultures at some point have had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery. Numerous cultures store wedding dowries in the form of jewellery or make jewellery as a means to store or display coins. Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good;[5] an example being the use of slave beads.[6]

Many items of jewellery, such as brooches and buckles, originated as purely functional items, but evolved into decorative items as their functional requirement diminished.

Jewellery can also symbolise group membership (as in the case, of the Christian crucifix or the Jewish Star of David) or status (as in the case of chains of office, or the Western practice of married people wearing wedding rings).

Polymerization degree and Raman identification of ancient glasses used for jewelry, ceramic enamels and mosaics

Abstract

We demonstrate the utility of Raman spectroscopy as a technique for the identification of ancient glasses and enamel coatings of ceramics. As for any silicate glasses, the addition of network modifiers breaks the Si–O linkages and modifies the degree of polymerization and hence the relative intensity of the Si–O bending and stretching modes. We demonstrate empirically that the ratio of these envelopes is well correlated to the glass structure and to the firing technology used. Spectral Qn components assigned to isolated and connected SiO4 vibrational units allow more precise analysis. Selected porcelains, faiences, potteries and glasses representative of the different Asian, Islamic and European production technologies were studied. Modern porcelain enamels are used as compositional references.

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