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Scottish Vows Awards 2016

Daniel Henderson Jewellers is excited to announce their entry on the prestigious SCOTTISH VOWS AWARDS 2016.

The Scottish VOWS Awards' mission is to find businesses who help brides and grooms to make their special day, extra special. Businesses who put their clients in the spotlight.

The best part of the awards is that is down to the 'happy couples' to vote directly and support their favourite suppliers.
And even better still, by taking part on it, you will be automatically entered into a fantastic prize draw to win a romantic break for two. So everybody is a winner!!

Just click on the link, look for us Daniel Henderson Jewellers, and answer the five short questions. Note that voting closes in September.

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Brides and grooms, who have gone the extra mile for your wedding day?!

June Jewels

Symbols

Alexandrite shares its status as a June birthstone with cultured pearl and moonstone.
The gemstone has been thought to bring luck, good fortune, and love. It is also said to strengthen intuition, creativity, and imagination and encourages romance.
Alexandrite’s dramatic colour change is described as “emerald by day, ruby by night”, the phenomenon itself is often called “the alexandrite effect”. 

The jewel is the very rare colour change variety of the mineral chrysoberyl.  However, the striking colour change doesn’t arise from the gem’s pleochroism, but rather from the mineral’s unusual light-absorbing properties.
Its origins date back to 1934 in Russia’s Ural Mountains near the Tokovaya River. The gem was named after the young Alexander II (1818-1881) and it caught the country’s attention because its red and green colours which mirrored the Imperial Russian flag and so it became the national stone of tsarist Russia.

The original source in Russia's Ural Mountains has long since closed after producing for only a few decades and only a few stones can be found on the market today. However, in 1987, a new find of alexandrite was made in Brazil at a locality called Hematita. Other places where it’s found is Sri Lanka and East Africa.

The newer deposits contain some fine-quality stones, but many displays less-precise colour change and muddier hues than the nineteenth-century Russian alexandrites.

The prices 

The value of Alexandrite varies depending on the size and quality of the gemstone. The most important factors are the strength of the color change, color saturation under varying lighting conditions, clarity and size. Alexandrites with a strong color change are very valuable and clean stones over 1 carat are very rare.
When evaluating alexandrite, pay the most attention to the color change: the more dramatic and complete the shift from red to green, without the bleeding through of brown from one color to the next, the rarer and valuable the stone.

While Alexandrites found favor in the jewelry salons of St. Petersburg, it was America’s Tiffany Company that seems to have done the most to popularize the gem.
The greatest alexandrite specimen ever found is housed in Moscow's Fersman Mineralogical Museum.

'Oppenheimer Blue' diamond sells for over $57M

GENEVA –  The "Oppenheimer Blue" diamond sold Wednesday for more than 56.8 million Swiss francs ($57.6 million) including fees, crushing the previous record for the most expensive diamond ever sold at auction.

'Oppenheimer Blue' diamond 

Capping a lively and even laughter-filled auction at Christie's, the hammer came down to applause as the 14.62-carat stone, billed as the largest Vivid Blue diamond ever put up for auction, went to an unidentified buyer for a hammer price of 50.6 million Swiss francs — which excluded fees and the buyer's premium.

That obliterated the pre-sale estimate range of between 38 million and 45 million francs.

The final tally also blew away the previous record for a diamond sold at auction by nearly $10 million: The 12.03-carat polished "Blue Moon" diamond went for $48.5 million in Geneva in November.

Christie's spokeswoman Alexandra Kindermann said the bidding for the "Oppenheimer Blue" lasted over 25 minutes for the single lot, after starting at 30 million francs. The anticipation was often marked with tense pauses, groans, and laughter.

The rectangular-cut diamond has been set in a ring and flanked by two smaller trapezoid-shaped diamonds. The stone got its name from the late Sir Philip Oppenheimer, who long oversaw De Beers mining and had given the stone to his wife.

Oppenheimer, who died in 1995 at age 83, helped De Beers gain control of the world diamond market by convincing the Soviet Union to let him market its gems. He started his career with the diamond-mining giant in 1933 as a diamond sorter and trainee salesman.

In diamond-business parlance, "provenance" matters. Raymond Sancroft-Baker, Christie's director of European jewelry, said Oppenheimer "had the pick of all diamonds over a 50-year period, and this is what he picked out for his wife."

"There're been several other blue diamonds which have been sold in the past, but nothing really quite of this quality," Sancroft-Baker said, adding that while the stone wasn't internally flawless, it was "nearly perfect."

The sale rounded out a two-day run of big-ticket jewelry auctions in Geneva. At Sotheby's on Tuesday, a vivid, pearl-shaped pink diamond said to be the largest of its kind to go under the hammer sold for 27.3 million Swiss francs ($28 million) — at the low end of the pre-sale estimated price range.

Would you like to see our great selection of diamonds? 
Come along and take your pick!

Record Breaking Diamond

Lucara sells rough diamond for record-breaking £43.5m


Diamond production company Lucara has revealed the greatest rate ever achieved for the sale of a rough diamond.

The 812.77-carat kind IIa rough diamond, which was recovered from the Karowe mine in Botswana in November in 2014, has been sold by the company for $63m (₤ 43.5 m).

  


As part of the sale, there was an additionally preserved 10% interest in the internet profit received from the sale of the completed polished diamond.

The diamond "The Constellation" was named by Nemesis International and Lucara.

William Lamb, president and CEO, claimed: "We are extremely pleased with the sale of this wonderful 813ct diamond as well as the possibility to more participate in earnings made when the polished item is offered."

The sale of the 813 carat diamond is the greatest price ever before reached for a rough diamond.

The sale comes quickly after Lucara revealed the largest rough diamond to be found in over a century, at 1109-carats-- will certainly go on at a standalone Sotheby's auction in London on June 29, 2016. It is anticipated that the ruby can cost as much as ₤ 48m.

We will be keeping our eyes on it!!

May Jewels

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As the birthstone for May, the Emerald, a sign of renewal, is believed to provide the owner insight, good fortune, as well as youth.

Emerald, has its origins from the Greek word smaragdus, suggesting eco-friendly and we can find it used in Egypt as very early as 330 B.C.

Today, a lot of the globe's emeralds are mined in Colombia, Brazil, Afghanistan, as well as Zambia. The availability of high-quality emerald green is restricted; consequently, therapies to improve clarity are executed on a regular basis.

See our selection and take your pick!!

The greener the better!!

World Wide Premiere

Little Sneak Preview Of One Of Our Stunning New Diamond Pendants!

Seen Here Crafted In 18ct Rose Gold.





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