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Specialties
Jewelry Appraisals of all types. Complete Gem Lab on Premises. GIA Graduate Gemologist since 1976.
Meet the Business Owner
Joel L.
Business Owner
Joel Lackey got involved in the jewelry business after graduating college in 1970. His experience in the jewelry business began as an opal cutter working with his father and his business associates who brought large wooden crates of opal rough from Australia. Once he completed the opal cutting project, he was sent to New York City to work as a diamond cutting apprentice at the old Diamond Club Bldg. at 30 W. 47th St. in NYC. He worked at the cutting wheel for a year. A chance vacation to Miami, Fla. led him to a retail position at Balogh Jewelers in Miami Beach, Fla. where he was first exposed to the appraisal business. Joel remained there for 6 years, performing the majority of their appraisals and estate evaluations for the major auction houses like Sotheby’s and Christie’s.