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A Singapore native, Ban was born to real estate development executive David Ban and gemologist Patricia Ban.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

Mr. Kunz “acquired the rough gemstone from a mine in California and cut the stone in his studio,” Victoria Reynolds, Tiffany’s chief gemologist since 2020, wrote in an email.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2022

Ms Lakatos was allegedly the woman posing as Anna, who was escorted into the jewellers' basement meeting room on 10 March by Mr Wainwright and the firm's own gemologist, Emma Barton.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2021

While a gemologist wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between mined and synthetic diamonds, a jeweler needs to tell buyers the origin.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2017

Before the war, the life of Reinhold von Rumpel was pleasant enough: he was a gemologist who ran an appraisal business out of a second-story shop behind Stuttgart’s old chancellery.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr