Lately we have been hearing a lot about thefts in the jewelry industry, but never from an armored truck. This story is unreal and reinforces the need to make sure your precious metals shipment is insured while in transit.
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JSA says off premises attacks spiked in October
The number of attacks on traveling jewelry salespeople and retailers away from their stores spiked last month, prompting the Jewelers’ Security Alliance to issue a special alert and advisory. The full story…
Happy Veteran’s Day
We would like to wish a Happy Veteran’s Day to all who have served. In honor of this day we would like to share a video from the West Point Ring Ceremony held at Pease & Curren last February.
Jeopardizing the value of the entire diamond industry
As a precious metals refiner who also specializes in stone removal, we can attest it has been increasingly hard to segregate real diamonds from the man-made. Advances in synthetics have made it impossible to identify fakes and it is because of this many synthetics are being sold into the market as the real thing. In fact, in 2015 a package containing 110 man-made… Read More »
The election and the gold price
Lots of conflicting views on what the election’s effect on gold price will be. This is what was in the news today… http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-01/buy-gold-no-matter-who-wins-the-election-hsbc-says
Should you hold your gold?
We are constantly getting customer calls into the refinery asking for advice – “Should we sell our gold and other precious metals? How will the Presidential election effect the gold price? What will the actions of The Fed have on metals?” Many times what historically has happened just simply isn’t the case.
5 Ways to Spot a Synthetic Diamond
Year after year the fakes are getting harder to distinguish. At Pease & Curren, although we do not claim to be gemologists, we continually upgrade our testing equipment to keep in step with the fast growing synthetic diamond market. It used to be we could “frost” the stones. Frosting is a chemical process during which… Read More »
Sold, Pawned, Lost, Found and Donated…the iconic Super Bowl ring
With football season upon us we would like to share some interesting facts about the portable Super Bowl trophy, the Super Bowl Ring. Do you know who actually gets a Super Bowl ring?
Going for the Gold? The facts about Olympic medals
The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio is here.
Gold Price Rises- So Do the Fakes
Increase in demand for coins is brought on by the increase of the gold price this year. Although forgeries have been around for centuries, they sometimes get better with age. Buyer Beware.
