Anna Diamonds

Valuations  ·  United Kingdom and Italy

Sell your jewellery: a written valuation from three photographs

Photograph the piece, send the photographs with your name, and the valuation comes back in writing.
Until you agree a figure, the piece stays where it is.

Send your photographs See the three photographs

Anna Diamonds BVBA Ltd · registered in England, company number 07596541.

You send
A first name, a surname, an email address
And
The whole piece, the hallmark, the stone
You get back
A figure, in writing
The piece
Stays in your house, the whole time

How it works

  1. Photograph the piece: the whole piece, the hallmark, the stone.

  2. Send the photographs, with your first name and surname.

  3. A valuation comes back in writing.

  4. Decide. Until then the piece has not left your house.

Nothing is posted, insured or signed for until there is a figure on the table and you have agreed to it.

⬜ Manca: il tempo di risposta a una valutazione — un numero vero, ore o giorni lavorativi, da mettere nel passaggio 3. Mai un generico «presto».

The three photographs a valuation is made from

Daylight, a plain surface, a phone. That is the whole kit.

  • The whole piece, seen from the front.
  • The hallmark inside the band, or beside the clasp.
  • The stone, as close as the camera will focus.

If you cannot find a mark, photograph the place where it would be.

Leave the piece as it is: the dirt in the engraving is part of the reading.

Send your photographs
  • sharp
    blurred
    The whole piece
  • readable
    in shadow
    The hallmark
  • close
    reflecting
    The stone

⬜ Da sostituire con le sei fotografie vere del cliente (giusta / sbagliata, lo stesso pezzo in tutte e due).

Send your photographs

A first name, a surname, an email address and the photographs. Everything else on this form is optional.

The valuation comes back here, in writing.
The whole piece, the hallmark, the stone. Two or three are enough.

Straight from the phone, as they are

Where it came from, what you were told, what is written on it.
Metal, hallmark, age, size — if you happen to know

Leave all of these empty if you do not know them. The photographs answer them anyway.

375, 585, 750, 916, 925 — whatever you can read.
Ring size, chain length, or the width across.

The photographs go to Anna Diamonds BVBA Ltd, company number 07596541. How they are handled.

Account
None. The form is the whole enquiry
The piece
Stays with you until a figure is agreed
The answer
In writing, to the email address you give
Company
07596541 at Companies House

Anna Diamonds buys from private owners and resells each piece once. The figure you are sent is a purchase price, not a shop price.

Bought whole, and sold whole

An old cut and a worn setting are reasons to keep a piece as it is.

Rings, pendants, bracelets, brooches and vintage jewellery: each one is resold whole, to one buyer.

Twenty to thirty pieces are here at a time. Each one passes through once.

See the pieces for sale

⬜ Manca: cosa si compra e cosa no — pezzi senza punzone, argento, orologi, pietre sciolte, oro rotto. Serve l'elenco dal cliente: qui va una sezione con due colonne, «yes» e «not for now».

After the valuation

The figure arrives in writing, so the piece and the price stay on record.

Reading it decides nothing. The next move is yours.

Take a second opinion before you sell. A figure means little on its own.

⬜ Manca: come viene pagato chi vende — bonifico o altro, in quanto tempo, e in che valuta (sterline o euro, e cosa cambia se chi vende è in Italia).

⬜ Manca: spedizione e assicurazione se si arriva a un accordo — corriere, massimale assicurato, chi paga il ritorno del pezzo se l'accordo salta.

Questions people ask first

Do I have to post the piece to find out what it is worth?
No. The valuation is made from the photographs. The piece stays in the drawer.
I have no idea what I own. Can I still send it?
Yes. The photographs do that work. Marks, dates and cuts are our side of it.
Should I clean or polish it first?
No. Age leaves marks that help date a piece, and polishing them away can cost you money.
My insurance valuation gives a much higher figure. Why?
That figure is the cost of replacing the piece new, at retail. An offer to buy answers a different question, and the two never match.
Do I need to create an account?
No. The form takes a first name, a surname, an email address and your photographs.
There is no hallmark on my piece. Is it worth sending?
Yes. Photograph the place where a mark would be. Not every old British piece carries one, and that on its own decides nothing.

What 375, 585, 750 and 925 stand for, and which assay office each symbol belongs to, is set out in the guide.

The guide to hallmarks

Photograph it, and send it here

Three photographs, a first name and a surname. That is the whole enquiry.

Everything in writing, so the figure and the piece stay on record.

Send your photographs