Overview

A comprehensive reference guide to gem and ornamental materials, this book deals with each gem species, outlining all the features a gem tester has to know before making an identification. The experienced author team describe not only each natural gem species, but also their synthetic counterparts, and the materials used as imitations, demonstrating how to avoid potentially costly mistakes. End of chapter summaries, details of further reading, and the companion web site combine to provide all the support needed by professional gemmologists, antique and gemstone dealers, jewellers and students.

Full Product Details

9780750655125

Table of Contents

Reviews

'Michael O'Donoghue and Louise Joyner are to be congratulated on authoring this innovative identification manual for gemstones, gem materials, their synthetics and their imitations. Purchase of this manual of gem identification is recommended to all students of gemmology. Practical gemmology will be well served by this publication.' The Australian Gemmologist 'the authors have produced a work of reference that is packed with a mass of determinative information... use of both the contents page and the index will quickly reveal a wealth of material to aid specific identification problems'. Journal of Gemmology 2003

Author Information

Louise Joyner has a background in geology and is a Fellow of the Geological Society. She has worked in Archaeological science at the Fitch Laboratory, British School, at Athens, Greece, the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield, and is currently at the Department of Scientific Research, the British Museum, London, UK. A Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain, she has a Diploma in Gemmology and was awarded the Anderson-Bank prize is 2000. Her research interests include gemmology, lithics, ancient pigments, ceramics, plasters and mudbricks.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available