Diamond I found

[Fat]

I picked this up when I was mowing yards in summer time, roading, to my next job.
I never think about asking or showing a jewelry person in the flesh.
On a different post I was interested in actually learning if it was possible to I.D with a pic.
In the process of me taking pic and than reading what was going on there caused my reaction. I apologize.

 

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[Mackaydon]

Have you or your local jewelry store verified it's a diamond?
Don.......

 

[smokeythecat]

The best thing to do is buy a diamond tester off the next About $15-$25 and a good investment. They really work. Hope it's real.

 

[Fat]

Thanks smoke. I’m going to add that to my list of stuff... that price tag moves it to just in front of any thang else except milk and bread, I will let you know.

 

[Gare]

Fat just send it to me i will let you know No return ADDRESS NEEDED LOL

 

[Fat]

Sure, I was thinking that I will take personal check from you for the difference, trailer trade? I’m sure we’re really close on numbers...

 

[smokeythecat]

I am found similar large stones. Unfortunately, all of mine were junk. I have found diamonds still in rings, however.

 

[old digger]

Nice! Yes, have it checked out to see if it is real. You could also have it checked out to access the clarity and while that is done it is possible to see if it has been laser numbered on the side of face cut. Of course that might be a way of tracking down the possible owner.

 

[billjustbill]

I was on the way out of detecting in an old county rodeo site when the morning sun caught a clear stone's flash. It is almost like yours. Back then I didn't have a diamond checker, so I took it to an old jeweler. He taught me one way to tell if it was either a diamond or just a CZ.

If you can find some very small fine print from some old assembly instruction sheets, or found small lettering around old or foreign postage stamps, turn the stone upside down so the facets are facing upward. Slowly move the clean dry stone over the fine print. If you can see the printed letters move as you look through the stone with the help of an ordinary 3X to 5X magnifying glass, it means the stone is most likely a CZ. A diamond's facets reflect so well inside the precious stone, the back view looking through the cut facets is almost impossible to see through.

The one I found was a large CZ. But, because I find 10 times more gold, silver, and some diamonds at garage sales than metal detecting, I bought a battery powered "thermal" diamond tester. It's made by Tri Electronics Inc. and called " DIAMOND PRO DUAL TESTER". It is made to tell the difference between metal setting itself, CZ's, Diamonds, and Moissanite stones. I've never found Moissanite, so far... ;>)

 

[Fat]

Hello Bill and thanks for the tip. I’m going to go try that when the sun gets up.