Announcing special pricing on Diamond Essentials for the Holidays! A new special sale item will be featured each week. This…
The gems that I use to create stunning jewelry can be equally stunning in their natural state. The Yale Peabody…
An 11.00 carat Brownish Orange piece of rough diamond was discovered by a farmer in the Central African Republic years…
Australian mines were the origin of the most famous opals in history. The Olympic Australis At 11 inches long, 4…
Opal is the national gemstone of Australia and the birthstone for the month of October. The most striking feature of…
Last week, as we tried on rings, necklaces and more during the Sapphire & Diamond Extravaganza, I was reminded that…
We love a good proposal story. Luckily, our engagement ring customers frequently share those stories with us. A message in…
Last week I attended a GIA Alumni Lecture, The Tale of the Blue Moon Diamond. The lecture was presented by…
We’ve been busy this August, enhancing grantsjewelry.com and planning for fall events! As the summer winds down, here’s a quick…
Congratulations on your engagement! As a newly-engaged bride-to-be, we’re sure that practical and time-consuming tasks like purchasing engagement ring insurance…
What is the GIA? Established in 1931, The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) is considered the world’s foremost authority in…
Red is the color of love. It radiates warmth and a strong sense of vitality, and is associated with passion…
Did you know that if you are a June baby, you have three birthstones from which to choose? Pearl, moonstone…
Whether you’ve had an idea in your head for years or you’ve found an existing design and want to add…
Why are pearls considered the world’s most mysterious of gems? Because of their origin and the manner in which they…
Fancy colored diamonds are not the only jewelry you’ll find on the auction block these days. Joan Rivers’ private collection…
Black diamonds, also known as black industrial diamonds, owe their color to minor inclusions and random particles in the stone,…
The “Cullinan Dream,” the largest and most expensive fancy intense blue diamond ever sold at auction, fetched $25.3 million Thursday…
The “Oppenheimer Blue” diamond sold recently for more than 56.8 million Swiss francs ($57.6 million) including fees, crushing the previous…
In this age of synthetic, lab-grown diamonds, transparency is critical. Lab-created diamonds are chemical clones of their mined counterparts, so…
You never know what you’ll find at the bottom of the sea. A couple of divers in the ancient Israeli…
The Lesedi la Rona weighs 1,109 carats. This massive tennis-ball sized rough diamond, the second largest ever unearthed, is expected…
Christie’s The Jubilee Ruby, a 15.99 ct. Burmese ruby and diamond ring, sold for $14,165,000 Christie’s set a record for…
Tuesday morning view of Central Park Reservoir. It’s a glorious day in New York City and lots happening at Grants…