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A gem dealer's journal — GIA

A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Interview with a Pearl Master: GIA’s Nicholas Sturman

• A gem dealer's journal • Asia Lounges • Bangkok • blog • color type • gem • gemological laboratory • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • GIA • gift • interview • jewellery • jewelry • Natural Gems • Nicholas Sturman • origin • pearl • Queen Of Gems • Simon Dussart • treatment • vietnam

A Gem Dealer’s Journal: Interview with a Pearl Master: GIA’s Nicholas Sturman

Hey Loungers,Ā 

Today we interview Nicholas Sturman, currently GIA’s senior manager of pearl identification globally who is based in Bangkok. Nick has over three decades of pearl identification under his belt and is here today to help us understand this very specialized part of the trade.

Our British friend worked on pearls for 16 years in Bahrain before joining us here, in the world gem capital, Bangkok, almost 11 years ago.Ā 

Without any further delays we give you Nick Sturman,

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Interview with the most famous Field Gemologist to have roamed the Earth: Vincent Pardieu

• A Gem dealers journal • aigs • Asia Lounges • blog • burma • colombia • color • color type • DANAT • east africa • garnet • gem • gemological laboratory • gems • gemstome • Gemstone • GIA • interview • Lapidary • lotus gemology • madagascar • mahenge • merelani • Mozambique • Natural Gems • one of a kind • origin • rough • ruby • Simon Dussart • Spinel • SSEF • tajikistan • tanzania • treatment • Tsavorite • Tucson • vietnam • Vincent Pardieu

Interview with the most famous Field Gemologist to have roamed the Earth: Vincent Pardieu

Hey Loungers,

Today we receive Vincent Pardieu, one of the most famous, if not the most famous field gemologist in activity. Vince has been working for AIGS, then Gübelin and rose to fame through his tenure at GIA as he started the Field Gemology department for the Bangkok chapter of the famous organisation.

Today, while providing independent services at ā€œVP Consulting SPCā€, he is affiliated to DANAT, the Bahrain based lab where he is building a reference collection. This endeavour allows him and his teams of cameramen and photographers to travel the world and go from mine to mine and further gemological knowledge worldwide.

Today, we’ll pick his brain about field gemology obviously, but also about his thoughts about the trade, the tendencies and of course about his favourite gems.

Without any further delays, we give you Vincent Pardieu!

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