With an abundance of "Artistic-Flare & Design" with extended experience in the industry

Linda has been in the jewellery industry since 2004, starting out at a family-owned manufacturing jewellery workshop & retailer. Eventually ending up managing the entire workshop & retail store, with experience from jewellery repairs to special custom designed jewellery orders in all styles: modern contemporary, art deco`, art nouveau`& simple yet elegant designs. Keeping up with current market trends which makes her a standout with her artistic-flare when it comes to your unique jewellery piece, with leading edge experience in CAD CAM, casting & handmakes, Linda has you covered with that special sentimental piece.

The most reliable, "Trusted & Efficient Valuer in the Gold Coast & Brisbane City areas"

Why get your jewellery pieces valued?

Linda has been doing valuations by forward & backward quoting from mine to market jewellery pieces for over 15 years, and with extensive trade experience and ongoing education with the GAA, and current memberships with JAA, & NAJA Linda stays up to date with education, workshops, current daily commodity pricing, and current values across Australia leaving nothing to chance.

        - To buy or sell | Estate liquidation | Insurance replacement | Curiosity

Linda doesn’t work with any other companies or entities, including insurance or other retailers & is strictly independent & completely conflict free of bias relationships in the market.

Assessing the manufacture of a piece of jewellery takes skill & experience

When assessing a piece of jewellery, the first steps are to break down the components in which the item has been manufactured using Linda's astute knowledge & experience in the industry. This can only be done over time with hands-on practical experience, this cannot just be learnt in a short theory-like approach in a class room, rather in the field working, living breathing jewellery & the manufacturing components in which an item is created.

Careful steps need to be taken when "Appraising & Valuing" a piece of jewellery & when identifying gemstones

With the rise in new age methods of synthesising and creating imitation fake gem material, this requires trade experience & ongoing education to keep up to date as there is always something new hitting the market, especially with (CVD) Chemical Vapour Deposition Diamonds hitting the market as they have the same appearance & optical properties that are identical to a natural diamond, which makes it difficult to identify even with the trained eye & not easy to distinguish, without the education, experience and scientific equipment by a trained gemmologist like Linda at PJV, with confidence she can identify.

In the market there are always new imitations emerging to fool the consumer in some way, with confidence PJV can provide you a valuation with peace of mind.

The steps taken to identify a piece of jewellery & gemstone material

        - Use gemmological grade scientific equipment & education to identify gemstones
        - Identify the condition of jewellery: New | Second-hand | Excellent| Good |Worn
        - Manufacturing: CAD-CAM| Cast| Handmade | Hand Finished
        - Identify metal using Acid test or XRF: Gold | Silver | Platinum
        - Grading the gem materiel: Colour| Clarity | Cut| Carat
        - Determine the value: Insurance | Probate | Estate | Market value upon request