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Old 08-26-2008, 04:57 AM
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One question, with the pearl companies today using different grading system why there is not a national or international grading system that we can all used?

I was looking at several companies grading systems and they were all different. Some did have a few things in their grading system that were close to being the same.

I contacted the GIA and their reply was “we do not use a progressively lettered or numbered grading system in the laboratory”.

There were companies that graded some of their peals as AAAA. Is this accepted by anyone standers?
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Hi Eugene,

You can find a pretty good run down here: http://www.pearl-guide.com/pearl-grading.shtml
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