CMKM Diamonds Inc. (fka CMKX)

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Interesting post about Joel on RB.

I don't know if anyone's read it yet, if so sorry for the repost.

http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=CMKX&read=317432

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By: midas01mi
20 Jun 2004, 10:09 PM EDT
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JOEL FROM FLORIDA ON IBC......


Joel Lackey, GG

Graduate Gemologist Appraiser


6655 W. Sahara Avenue, Suite B-200
Las Vegas, Nevada 89146
phone: [phone]
fax: [phone]


Summary of Qualifications
Joel Lackey has been actively involved in the jewelry industry for 30 years. His experience in the jewelry business began in 1971 as an opal cutter working with his father's business associates who bought huge crates of opal rough from Australia. Once he completed the cutting of all rough material, he was sent to New York City to work as a diamond cutting apprentice on 47th Street. This led him to a retail position at Balogh Jewelers in Miami, Florida where he was first exposed to he appraisal business. Joel remained there for six years, performing the majority of their appraisals and estate evaluations for Sotheby's. Only being in his mid-twenties, Joel found it easy to sit for long periods of time, counting and evaluating diamonds without eye fatigue. Without realizing it, he was receiving a million dollar education and a slant on the business that would last a lifetime.

In 1978, Joel co-founded Kravit Estate Jewelers in Hallandale, Florida. The company later became one of the largest estate jewelry companies in the country. It was during this same year that Joel was included in the very first issue of Who's Who in the Jewelry Business, published by JCK magazine.

Although Joel left the business for a decade after the Hunt Bros. silver debacle and diamond investment craze of the early 80's, he again got recharged about the jewelry business while working for Dana Schorr in the loose stone business and started to recover his value sense, away from the retail business.

His encounter with The Jewelry Judge founders at the JCK show in Las Vegas encouraged him to make the move to join an association of elite jewelry appraisal professionals and establish his own Jewelry Judge center in Las Vegas.