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I am a first-time gem buyer, and I find the jargon a little forbidding. Table, antique, cabochon, trilliant, etc. I have guessed at the meaning of a few of these, but I don't want to spend good money based on my guesses and a web picture or two.

Does anyone have a good reference for a list of such terms, so I can decide what they mean? In particular, right now I'm looking for stones carved fairly flat so a setting wouldn't have to be too thick.

Thanks for any help!

There is an article titled "Gem Cutting Terms" in the International Gem Society's Reference Library. http://www.gemsociety.org/info/info.htm

Donald49Donald49 17:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Donald49: For the sake of legibility, you may want to indent your replies using colons. Wikisyntax assumes you are adding code when you start a line with a space, and converts it to monotype with no automatic line breaks!--Joel 06:08, 2 February 2007 (UTC)