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Wholesale Loose Diamonds
Purchasing a diamond is more than finding a diamond that you like in a store and deciding that you want to buy it. Finding the perfect diamond for your needs as well as your budget is the single most important thing you need to think of when finding a wholesale diamond. These types of diamonds you won't find in a store. Diamond wholesalers makeup a good percentage of the diamond trade. Even if you find a diamond in a semi-retail environment odds are the owner does sell diamonds on the side or at trade shows at a wholesale level. At Wholesale Importers, Inc. you'll always find the lowest priced loose diamonds in the jewelry industry. See all of our inventory online below. |
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| 1/4ctw parcel of loose diamonds |
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Your diamond parcel will consist of 5 diamonds ranging from .04 to .06ct. each. The diamonds are 100% real, not lab created or altered in any way. The pictures are that of the item you are bidding on. Great for gifts, repairs or investments. See full grading below. Diamond prices as you have probably noticed over the past 6 months have went up but we are one of the few imports that have been able to keep the prices affordable to our clients. |
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| GEMSTONE GRADING: |
| Gem Type: Diamond |
Size in MM: 2 to 2.22mm |
| Carat Weight: 1/4ctw |
Cut: Round Full Cut Diamonds |
| Color: G-H color |
Clarity: SI3/I1 |
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1/4ctw parcel of loose diamonds |
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| Your diamond parcel will consist of 3 diamonds ranging from .07 to .09ct. each. The diamonds are 100% real, not lab created or altered in any way. The pictures are that of the item you are bidding on. Great for gifts, repairs or investments. See full grading below. Diamond prices as you have probably noticed over the past 6 months have went up but we are one of the few imports that have been able to keep the prices affordable to our clients. |
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| GEMSTONE GRADING: |
| Gem Type: Diamond |
Size in MM: 2.7 to 2.9mm |
| Carat Weight: 1/4ctw |
Cut: Round Full Cut Diamonds |
| Color: G-H color |
Clarity: SI3/I1 |
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1/2ctw parcel of loose diamonds
Your diamond parcel will consist of 10 diamonds ranging from .04 to .06ct. each. The diamonds are 100% real, not lab created or altered in any way. The pictures are that of the item you are bidding on. Great for gifts, repairs or investments. See full grading below. Diamond prices as you have probably noticed over the past 6 months have went up but we are one of the few imports that have been able to keep the prices affordable to our clients. |
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| GEMSTONE GRADING: |
| Gem Type: Diamond |
Size in MM: 2 to 2.22mm |
| Carat Weight: 1/2ctw |
Cut: Round Full Cut Diamonds |
| Color: G-H color |
Clarity: SI3/I1 |
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DIAMOND HISTORY AND THE WHOLESALE TRADE
For the last 3000 to 4000 years, diamonds have held special magic for Kings, Queens and their subjects. Diamonds have stood for wealth, power, love, spirit and magical powers. Kings in olden days would wear into battle heavy leather breastplates studded with diamonds and other precious stones. It was believed that diamonds were fragments of stars and the teardrops of the Gods. The diamonds possessed magical qualities of the Gods and held powers far beyond the understanding of the common man. Because of these beliefs, the warriors stayed clear of the Kings and others who were fortunate to have the magical diamonds in their breastplates.
Until the 15thCentury only Kings wore diamonds as a symbol of strength, courage and invincibility. Over the centuries, the diamond acquired its unique status as the ultimate gift of love. It was said that cupids' arrows were tipped with diamonds that have a magic that nothing else can equal.
Since the creation of diamonds they have been associated with romance and legend. The Greeks believed the fire in the diamond reflected the constant flame of love.
For millions of people around the world, the mystery and magic, the beauty and romance shining out from a simple solitaire says all the heart feels but words cannot express. It wasn't until 1477 when Archduke Maximilian of Austria gave a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy, that the diamond engagement ring was introduced. Placing the ring on the third finger of the left hand dates back to the early Egyptian belief that the Vena Amors, vein of love, runs directly from the heart to the tip of the third finger.
The first riverbed (alluvial) diamonds were probably discovered in India, in around 800 B.C. The volcanic source of these diamonds was never discovered, but the alluvial deposits were rich enough to supply most of the world's diamonds until the eighteenth century, when dwindling Indian supplies probably spurred the exploration that led to the discovery of diamonds in Brazil, which became the next important diamond source. Beginning in l866, South Africa's massive diamond deposits were discovered, and a worldwide diamond rush was on. The South African diamond output was unrivaled until major deposits were found in Siberian permafrost in l954. And currently Western Canada is the site of the world's newest round diamond rush.
Throughout much of history, diamonds were mined from the sand and gravel surrounding rivers. But in South Africa in 1870 diamond was found in the earth far from a river source, and the practice of dry digging for diamonds was born. More sophisticated mining techniques allowed deeper subterranean digging, as well as more efficient river (and, most recently, marine) mining, than ever before.
THE CUTTING OF THE WHOLESALE DIAMOND
The cutting of loose diamonds into the complex faceted forms we now associate with these gems is actually a relatively recent practice. For centuries, wholesale diamonds were kept as talismans, and often not worn at all, though natural octahedral (eight-sided stones) were sometimes set in rings. A Hungarian queen's crown set with uncut diamonds, dating from approximately l074, is perhaps the earliest example of wholesale diamond jewelry. We know that the royalty of France and England wore diamonds by the 1300's. In sixteenth century England, fashionable lovers etched romantic pledges on windowpanes with the points of their diamond rings, known as "scribbling rings".
The earliest record of diamond polishing (with diamond powder) is Indian, and probably dates from the fourteenth century. There are also contemporary references to the practice of diamond polishing in Venice. The earliest reference to diamond cutting is in l550 in Antwerp, the most important diamond center of the period, where a diamond-cutters' guild was soon to be established.
THE OLD DIAMOND ROUTES AND WHOLESALE DIAMOND CENTERS OF THE WORLD
Indian diamonds reached Venice by two Mediterranean routes: the southern route was by way of Aden, Ethiopia, and Egypt, and the northern route was through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, and Turkey. Then, thanks to the Portuguese discovery of the direct sea route to India, Antwerp flourished as a diamond center, as the city was well situated to receive vast supplies of rough from Lisbon as well as from Venice.
After Spanish attacks on Antwerp in1585, many diamond cutters relocated to Amsterdam. And the Netherlands, with its liberal civil policies, attracted diamond craftsmen (including many Jews) who were fleeing religious persecution in Spain, Portugal, Germany and Poland.
In the late1600's, as the English fortified their interest in India, which was still the world's central wholesale diamond source, London became an important cutting center. Later, London became the primary world market of diamond rough.
Today, there are cutting centers all over the world, most notably in Belgium, Indian, Israel, South Africa, and the USA. |
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