Sell Fancy Colored Diamonds Today in 3 Effortless Steps

Sell Fancy Colored Diamonds Confidently

Colored diamonds may seem like “novelty stones” when compared to their traditional, sparkling colorless cousins – that is, until you’ve shopped for jewelry featuring natural fancy colored diamonds. Once you’ve seen the price tags, you know that these extremely rare gemstones (10,000 colorless diamonds are found for each natural, fancy stone) can cost much more than “regular” diamonds.

Since precious stones don’t normally lose value over time (unless they’ve been damaged in some way) this means you could be sitting on an unexpected windfall when you decide to sell the fancy colored diamonds in your possession. Vivid yellow and orange diamonds, stones which are blue, green, violet or pink, and the extraordinarily rare natural, fancy red diamonds are worth a lot of money today. Even more common fancy yellow, brown and grey diamonds have quite a bit of intrinsic worth.

If you have inherited one or more of these stones, whether loose or in a setting, you’re likely to have a valuable piece on your hands. On the other hand, if you spent your own money to acquire jewelry featuring fancy colored diamonds, you already know they’re expensive items.

At Dimorras, we’re ready to buy any or all of the colored diamonds in your collection for prices almost unheard of in today’s market. We sell fancy colored diamonds to our large worldwide client base on a daily basis, and quite frankly, demand outstrips supply. That’s why we might seem to be overpaying for these gemstones. We want to keep our buyers happy.

And you could be the beneficiary. When you’re ready to part with your stunning fancy colored stones, we’d like the opportunity to make you an offer on them. We’re even prepared to deliver a free, no-obligation, preliminary evaluation of your pieces. All you have to do is complete our simple online form; we’ll do the work and you’ll receive our estimate quickly and confidentially.

Sell Fancy Colored Diamonds in Any Condition

From that point, it’s completely up to you whether you’d like us to do an expert, in-person appraisal of your colored diamonds and make a firm offer. If you so choose, we will pay to have your stones or pieces shipped to us, and we will fully insure them as well. Once our professional staff has completed its in-depth inspection, you will receive a firm offer to buy the fancy colored diamonds for cash, payable in less than 48 hours; if you decide to keep the diamonds, they’ll be shipped right back to you in perfect condition.

Speaking of condition, we want to buy fancy colored diamonds in any condition, set or unset. It doesn’t matter whether your stones have a chip or crack, or whether you have paperwork for them or not (although, as you’d probably expect, we can pay more for documented stones in their original condition). And they don’t have to be exceptional, rare colors like red or pink. Our preliminary evaluation will let both of us know if there’s reason to proceed with a full appraisal, and it won’t cost a thing except a few moments of your time. We invite you to begin the process whenever you’re ready to sell fancy colored diamonds.

Where do Fancy Colored Diamonds Come From?

Have you ever wondered where these extraordinary fancy stones come from? If they’re natural, they come from the exact same place that lovely colorless diamonds do: deep inside the earth, formed by pressure and heat over millions of years. The difference is that, at least in most cases, foreign elements have been introduced into the carbon that’s compressed to form diamond. Here’s how it works.

Most natural colored diamonds have nitrogen in them, and depending on the arrangement of the nitrogen atoms and the way they bond with the carbon in the diamond’s latticework, different colors will be displayed. If they’re grouped in one way, they’ll absorb blue light and the diamond will appear yellow. A different grouping will absorb both blue and yellow light, and display as orange. Nitrogen atoms are also responsible for the color of some brown diamonds. In a similar way, the presence of the element boron leads to a blue colored diamond because red, yellow and green colors are absorbed.

Natural green diamonds are colored in a different manner. They are colorless until they reach the upper crust of the Earth on their journey to the top, when they are exposed to natural radiation. Scientists aren’t quite sure why the radiation has the effect it does, but it induces the diamonds to absorb yellow and red light, producing a green appearance.

Much rarer are diamonds which don’t contain nitrogen or other trace elements, but have their color imparted by unusual variations in heat and pressure while the stones are being formed. Purple, pink and red diamonds are produced in this manner, with red stones being rarest of all – less than two dozen natural red stones are known to exist, and even fewer have been graded as fancy.

We should note that when we discuss yellow diamonds, for example, we’re not talking about the hue of a “colorless” stone. We’re talking stones with strong color, which are graded as fancy.

The most affordable of these diamonds are the most common ones: brown, grey and fancy yellow stones. Intense yellow and orange diamonds are in the same general price range as their colorless counterparts, costing more or less depending on whether they have a secondary hue or color which detracts from the primary color’s intensity. Once you start looking at fancy, vivid yellow, pink, purple, green, blue and pure orange diamonds, though, you’ve reached the price stratosphere. (And we haven’t included red diamonds, which can sell for over a million dollars per carat.)

Dimorras stands ready to evaluate and purchase your fancy colored stones. Unlike your local jeweler (who is quite possibly simply guessing at the worth of a colored stone) our appraisers are experts in the specialized, complex process of grading colored diamonds based on the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), which is much different than procedures used to grade colorless stones. When you decide to sell the fancy colored diamonds in your collection or in an estate collection, we would be pleased to provide an honest and accurate appraisal and offer based on their real worth. Please be in touch.