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Diamonds, Music and other Facets of Life

Large and Rare Colored Diamonds Are Still Strong

The US retail jewelry market is still a little weak, but the super high end/investment quality diamonds are very strong with both Christie’s and Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels Auctions doing very well in Geneva this week. From Diamonds.net: Sotheby’s Jewels: Jewels of historical significance garnered strong prices at Sotheby’s Magnificent Jewels sale, held in Geneva on November 17. [...]

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I Don’t Like The Redskins, But I Love Washington DC!

We just had our first Buying Event at White Flint Mall in Bethesda, MD.  It went very well.  We’ve cultivated a big following in DC though our website, with customers coming to our store from DC and Northern Virginia on a regular basis.  So we teamed up with my cousin, David Samuelson, who happens to [...]

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The Diamond World is Changing

I knew it! The brands are breaking down. I just ran across this article from The Wall Street Journal about Tiffany and Co and other big retailers cutting and polishing their own diamonds in Botswana. Graff has owned Safdico Diamonds for a while, but he doesn’t sell to the masses like Tiffany. What jumped out [...]

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Petra Diamonds Finds HUGE 507 Carat Stone

They found some big ones this week in South Africa, most notably a 507 carat white Type II clean diamond.  I’m sure they’ll try to get a 200 carat out of it, and I can’t wait to see what this thing looks like finished! From Reuters: LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – AIM-listed Petra Diamonds (PDL.L) [...]

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Guest Blog Post: To Bid Or Not To Bid

This is an awesome guest blog post by Dana Kiyomura, expert in estate and antique jewelry. Dana has an office in NYC where she buys and sells vintage jewelry and you can follow her on Twitter @winebrilliant. “Bidding at a jewelry auction is time consuming and can be dangerous. First you have to preview the [...]

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Diamond Market Report

Like other financial and commodities markets, today’s diamond market is very volatile and unpredictable.  A lot of companies going into Chapter 11.  That being said, it’s a GREAT TIME to buy or to invest in diamonds.  They will be back!  The market for super high end colored diamonds is still strong and bridal is doing [...]

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Off To Vegas For JCK

Well I’m off to Las Vegas for the JCK Jewelry Trade Show where I will be presenting with Greg Cangialosi from Blue Sky Factory on Sunday at 9:45 PST, 12:45 EST.  We will be streaming live so come check it out.  Then Monday is a Facebook Face to Face party at TAO.  Should be a [...]

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Samuelson’s Finalist in Contest for Best Online Ad

We were honored to be chosen as a Finalist in National Jeweler’s Best Online Advertising contest: “Samuelson’s Diamonds, a Baltimore, Md.-based retail jeweler, was chosen as a finalist in the contest for its use of a viral marketing campaign. The brand created a Facebook fan page simply called “Diamonds,” so that anyone searching for that [...]

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My First Live TV Broadcast

So yesterday I had the pleasure of heading over to Blue Sky Factory for a live broadcast with my friend Greg Cangialosi.  We had a great time and talked about business, Baltimore, Facebook, music and showed some big diamonds of course.  We even had a little jam session! (about 37 minutes in)  We also set [...]

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24 Hours in NYC

So I went up to NYC for a little getaway for my 10th anniversary. (we’re headed somewhere warm on a nice four nighter next month) First we went to NEO for some GREAT Japanese food. Take a look at the pic of this tuna dish with avocado sauce on DoYouLoveit.com. Then took a walk down [...]

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