Specific Features In Jewelry | Lesson 8

Specific Features In Your Jewelry

Now we’ve had the chance to get over the procedures and practical factors in Setting our jewelry, if you haven’t looked at it yet, remind yourself of just what we did, as it’s time to check the worksheet once again, just to compare notes.

Please check my hand written worksheet in the previous lesson. No need to print it out if you don’t want to, as it’s just for conformation that we are both on the right track.

If you are finding yourself falling behind, there is no need to rush. These lessons should be printed out for you to follow over the next few weeks or months if you want to.

There is no final exam or conclusion. It is simply an explanation on the methods used by Valuers today.

Last time we also covered briefly:

• That the Setter charges a ‘Price per Piece’ fee.
• Smaller stones are less expensive to set.
• To count the number of gems to get the ‘Finishing’ price.

The general concept of price is based on the ‘Risk’ a Setter takes when doing his work. A less expensive gemstone, but with more tendency to break of shatter, could cost more than a Diamond. This helps explain why a brooch or watch strap set with hundreds of diamonds in Pave pattern (which means ‘like a pavement’ by the way) is less risk than a design with Opal or Emerald, both of which can break easily if set wrong.

Information like this can make life easier at Auction when a large colored gem set item fetches more than the diamond encrusted pendant. If you were buying to break it down, of course, that wouldn’t matter.

So what can we expect today?

• Special features which can influence price.
• Extra information for the Description section.
• Other items which increase or decrease the final figure.

In order to do that we need to look at individual items of jewelry to see why they have their own special needs.

Let’s begin by looking at the ‘Groups’ Jewelry comes in, because they each have their own special considerations. By breaking down jewelry in this way, we have a better chance of methodically working through the features which effect price.

They can be loosely categorized into the following headings.

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