{"id":1082,"date":"2012-06-02T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/?guid=863d8d370854cffd33ceabb87c73fb03"},"modified":"2012-06-02T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:10:34","slug":"jewelwklv-agta-gemfair-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/2012\/06\/02\/jewelwklv-agta-gemfair-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"#JewelWKLV &#8211; AGTA Gemfair Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QjHrr5arDmU\/T8oeryiR9iI\/AAAAAAAASDE\/Sg71IGmjXfM\/s1600\/100_2401.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QjHrr5arDmU\/T8oeryiR9iI\/AAAAAAAASDE\/Sg71IGmjXfM\/s320\/100_2401.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Equatorian Imports features Red Beryl <br \/>and &nbsp;stunning Cats-Eye Tourmaline!<br \/>Booth &nbsp;&#8211; #AGTA404<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;\"><b>AGTA Gemfair Las Vegas<\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">This one is for all my GEMMY Friends!!! &nbsp;You know I stopped in as soon as the doors opened &#8211; this is the show that I am so excited to see! &nbsp; You have gone on Gemfair trips with me in Tucson before&#8230;but I have to say the Las Vegas venue is just as big with so many vendors!!! &nbsp;&#8230;.and busy &#8211; busy &#8211; busy!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">There were some vendors that were&nbsp;still&nbsp;setting up &#8211; an issue throughout the event on the 30th &amp; 31st &#8211; flights from the Pennsylvania and Texas areas were either being cancelled or delayed&#8230;but they were there for the Opening! &nbsp;&#8230;can&#8217;r keep a good Gem down!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">This show has everything you have come to expect from an AGTA show and more! &nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ffdKyhXScDM\/T8ofiX0L0nI\/AAAAAAAASDQ\/BrQAKTACyT8\/s1600\/100_2425.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ffdKyhXScDM\/T8ofiX0L0nI\/AAAAAAAASDQ\/BrQAKTACyT8\/s200\/100_2425.jpg\" width=\"171\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">I think that there are a couple good thing that have come from our economic issues &#8211; first and foremost&#8230;it is GREAT to see the attention on hand cut and faceted gem cutters&#8230;and in this show &#8221; Made in the USA&#8221;&nbsp; is getting special attention! &nbsp;Just a few of the represented brands are &nbsp;Jewels from the Woods &#8211; AGTA222; John Dyer &#8211; AGTA1204 and Tom Trozzo &#8211; AGTA506 (Photo is from Tom Trozzo &#8211; just under 500 carats of hand-cut Amethyst!)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mD9mnGOKp6s\/T8oh2p1k_qI\/AAAAAAAASDY\/qmIy5s47vM8\/s1600\/100_2409.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"165\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-mD9mnGOKp6s\/T8oh2p1k_qI\/AAAAAAAASDY\/qmIy5s47vM8\/s200\/100_2409.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/span><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">&#8230;and secondly, the use of gems that were never before in the Luxury or Fine Jeweler&#8217;s Lexicon! &nbsp;these goodies can include (pun intended) diamond slices &#8211; rose cut (flat back) diamonds and colored stones &#8211; quartz with everything but the kitchen sink in it and druzy everywhere!<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3ed0tepPhuA\/T8olCAcnoqI\/AAAAAAAASD0\/HzeS2-fTrsI\/s1600\/100_2414.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-3ed0tepPhuA\/T8olCAcnoqI\/AAAAAAAASD0\/HzeS2-fTrsI\/s200\/100_2414.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">(Photos: Left from Lakhi Gems &#8211; Cognac and Rose Cut Diamonds and Below: from Rare Earth Mining #AGTA427 &#8211; Druzy coated in Precious Metals)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-R0rtdTZkZco\/T8orr72GTNI\/AAAAAAAASEg\/Rs8k2FmxX3M\/s1600\/pala.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"142\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-R0rtdTZkZco\/T8orr72GTNI\/AAAAAAAASEg\/Rs8k2FmxX3M\/s200\/pala.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">There are of course the traditional Gems with the big three (Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire) heavily represented and the non &#8211; traditional Rare stones &#8211; Paraiba and Mozambique Tourmaline shown from Pala International &nbsp;in Booth #AGTA514.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sTj3wzsY5bg\/T8osICguwNI\/AAAAAAAASEo\/6W4gxN2AP6U\/s1600\/betty.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-sTj3wzsY5bg\/T8osICguwNI\/AAAAAAAASEo\/6W4gxN2AP6U\/s200\/betty.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Pearls are showing NO sign of letting up &#8211; a classic that is VERY much on trend today! &nbsp;&#8230;and with over a dozen pearl vendors on the floor there is something for every shopper. &nbsp;Betty Sue King of King&#8217;s Ransom Pearls says that the hot items for her are her strands of &#8220;Comet&#8221; Pearls, her &#8220;Magic Metallics&#8221; and just look at the color in the baroques in front of her&#8230;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/pearlgoddess.com\/\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\" >King&#8217;s Ransom<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"> is in Booth #AGTA411<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4698837677539896356-6833854406279643082?l=dailyjewel.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equatorian Imports features Red Beryl and &nbsp;stunning Cats-Eye Tourmaline!Booth &nbsp;&#8211; #AGTA404AGTA Gemfair Las VegasThis one is for all my GEMMY Friends!!! &nbsp;You know I stopped in as soon as the doors opened &#8211; this is the show that I am so exc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[822,316,55,772,11,874,175,302,875],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/dailyjewel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}