Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds: Diagrams, Glossary, Bibliography (An Illustrated Study of the Aurora Collection Book 4)

Note to Reader

In order to reintroduce Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds: An Illustrated Study of the Aurora Collection (© S. Hofer 1998), in a convenient eBook format (accessible anywhere in the world), we had to break the massive 742-page original into 4 parts:

Book One – Introduction, Collecting, Rarity, Value
Book Two – Colour: Perception, Measurement, Appearance
Book Three – Colour: Varieties, Modifiers, Tones
Book Four – Diagrams, Glossary, Bibliography

Every page of the original has been meticulously rebuilt to take advantage of the eBook format. We trust you will you once again (or for the first time) find this extremely detailed reference book a valuable addition to your practice, enabling anyone with an interest in this subject to buy, sell and communicate coloured diamonds with greater understanding and confidence. Furthermore, we are pleased to make the full-color eBook available at a fraction of the original print edition cost.

Book four contains the following chapters

Diagrams, Glossary, Bibliography

? White Diamonds
? Appendix: Cut and Colour Compendium
? Questions to Ask Yourself When Viewing a Coloured Diamond
? Facet Patterns
? Colour Diagrams
? CAMP Worksheets
? Glossary: A Terminology Standard
? Bibliography; Books, Articles, Auction Records

Review

In 1987, a ninety-five point (0.95 ct) fancy purplish red sold for 8,315 per carat, or one hundred forty-five million dollars per ounce! At that point any lingering doubts about the value of rare natural coloured were erased, colored diamonds were not only the most expensive items on earth, their prices had entered outer space (i.e., this sale solidified natural coloured diamonds as the most concentrated form of wealth on the planet)!

According to many industry experts (e.g., Dr. J. Arem, author of the highly acclaimed Color Encyclopedia of Gemstones), Stephen Hofer’s book is the most comprehensive book ever written on colored diamonds. To call Hofer’s book comprehensive is, in fact, something of an understatement. Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds ranks not only as a definitive treatment of colored diamonds, it also contains one of the most interesting and relevant essays on the subject of color perception and colour science as it relates to gemstones yet published.

The major theme of Collecting and Classifying Coloured Diamonds is a thorough study of the famous Aurora Collection of colored diamonds. Along the way, Hofer also offers a logical new approach to colored diamond grading and a simple color classification system (referred to as the Universal Diamond Colour Language, UDCL), which includes a new short-hand method of colour notation (e.g., bluish green = b-G, blue-green = B-G, grayish blue-green = gy-B-G), and an excellent essay on gemstone lighting and its effect on colour appearance.

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