GJ209-OOE - Jewelry Forensics for Appraisers

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Course Description

Jewelry Forensice for Appraisers: The Evaluation of Jewelry Design and Engineering, Manufacturing Methods, Workmanship Quality and Condition 

This course will enable jewelry appraisers of all levels to better analyze and assess the quality of jewelry in order to establish value.

This course will cover the following topics:

• Properties and characteristics of precious jewelry metal alloys;
• Identifying common manufacturing methods by the distinctive traces they leave behind;
• Objectively assessing workmanship quality for long-term durability or risk of failure; and
• An introduction of GIA’s Quality Assurance Benchmarking (QAB)

Agenda

Day One:
8:00am - Noon - Class

Lunch on Own

1:00pm - 4:00pm - Class

Day Two:
8:00am - Noon - Class

Lunch on Own

1:00pm - 4:00pm - Class

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