Those are the important numbers.The most recent creation of game developer, Daniel Mullins, Inscryption blends card-based gameplay with the horror of games like Pony Island. Stamp or no stamp… Get your stone certified. It not only is the best way to identify your diamond, but it’s the best way to prevent diamond switching. You can look at those numbers under a microscope or a 10x jeweler’s loupe and know it’s your stone. That’s the best way to identify your diamond. Certification is a different story…Ĭertification and laser inscription to be exact!Ĭertification numbers (like a GIA certificate) get etched directly onto the diamond (right on the girdle). It’s by certification! After all, someone could put a different diamond in that ring and that carat weight stamp would be useless. The best way to identify your stone isn’t by this carat weight stamp… This happens with karat weight stamps as well, but jewelers usually put those back in. You may have a stamp inside your ring, but when you get your ring sized, that stamp could disappear.īecause the process of sizing a ring, cutting out a section of gold and fusing and filing it back together again, can actually cut that stamp out. Only a few certain jewelers do this, so you may never even see one. Not every ring has a carat weight stamp, but they will all have a karat stamp (at least the rings sold in the USA).Ĭarat weight stamps are actually pretty rare. A salesperson can quickly look inside the shank when they get the ring back and see the carat stamp and know that it’s their ring.Ĭarat weight stamps should not be confused with karat stamps, which also appear inside the ring.Įvery ring has a karat stamp in it, like 14k (which is the gold content like the ring in the photo), 18k or even Plat (for platinum). Stamping exact carat weights inside a ring can help prevent this. They actually have a replica made with a fake diamond in it (like a CZ) that gets handed back to the salesperson (after they pretend to look at it), and then the real diamond ring gets palmed and dropped into a pocket. When thieves come into the store (posing as regular customers), they try to switch diamond rings with the salespeople. It makes checking the ring and diamond a breeze. When a customer brings their diamond ring in for a cleaning and inspection, the salesperson can quickly look at the ring and verifies that the diamond matches the diamond guarantee.

Stamping the numbers inside the shank keeps the right diamond with the right paperwork and makes identifying the stone and tracking it much easier. When jewelers have to set 10 diamonds into 10 different rings, it can get pretty confusing in the shop keeping them straight.

They stamp the rings for a variety of reasons. I’ve never seen any independent jewelers do this, but that doesn’t mean they don’t.

Some large corporate jewelers stamp carat weights inside the ring, and maybe some designers do as well.

Jewelers can always get out a mm gauge to double check what the weight is, or remove the stone from the mounting and officially weight it if there are any doubts. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what the carat weight stamp is referring to.Īfter all, jewelers never stamp CW ( carat weight) or CTW ( carat total weight) inside the ring (at least that I’ve ever seen).

Inscryption ring