Scott Gordon - Jeweler / Gemologist / Appraisal Services

A jeweler's loupe is a small magnifying glass, usually ten-power, which is used to examine gemstones and jewelry. My late father gave me the one you see here when I joined my family's jewelry business thirty years ago. It is a folding pocket model, made of steel, and has "MADE IN HOLLAND" stamped on the other side. My dad said it had belonged to his father, who founded the company here in Oklahoma City in the early 1900's. When he gave it to me, it was inside a little leather pouch with a snap. I think he had this made, because he used to love to add his own touch to things. I used to think of it as my grandfather's gun in my father's holster.

For years, I carried it around with me all the time. It became a talisman. After I started my own business in 1991, it linked me to my past. Finally, a few years later, I put it away. Over the years, I have taken it out to use again, for briefer and briefer periods, and finally put it in my safe. Once in a while, I take it out and look at it, and I think of my father when I do. But I use the other, equally real gifts he gave me — of perserverance and imagination — in my own way, every day, seeing through them with my own eyes, and know that they belong to me. Now, any loupe I pick up might have been his, and every gemstone I examine reverberates with meaning. And what was old is new again.

In my newsletter on this site, I enjoy telling stories about those wearable objects combining nature and art — this is the jewelry to which we become attached. What I do in the jewelry business is to become your personal, expert jewelry consultant. In whatever role you find me, as a gemologist-appraiser, an estate jewelry seller, a diamond and colored gemstone broker, or an overseer of custom jewelry design, I listen to the story of your jewelry. To understand its meaning — the fine mist of hopes and dreams and memories surrounding it — is to come to know you, and how I can serve you. It is a privilege, for jewelry is an intimate thing, and joyful to share, because of the beauty, so I say thanks.