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Polished and rough diamonds lack some of the desirable attributes of investment vehicles, including liquidity, homogeneity and fungibility. The increasing quality and size, and decreasing price, of synthetic diamonds is presented as a threat to the value of polished diamonds as a long-term investment, but has never impacted real investment-grade diamond prices. The possibility of low-cost ultra–high-quality diamonds becoming available in industrial quantities at some time in the future has never been a hindrance for long-term investors in diamonds; synthetic diamonds have been manufactured since the 1950s[8] and have yet to have a major impact on the market.

An alternative example of such a price fall caused by introduction of a new simulant strongly undermining prices was the permanent fall in natural pearl prices with the introduction of cultured pearls. The mechanism by which prices were affected was complex. In part because of the social acceptability of wearing cultured pearls to much of the market, customers migrated from the natural to the lower priced cultured product. This altered the supply and demand situation for natural pearls and perhaps the overall prestige of pearls in general was lowered. In cases where synthetic stones have been much less socially acceptable to the market as a replacement for the natural version, the prestige of the natural stones has been retained. Thus increased availability and lowered prices of synthetics may or may not have major implications for the future price of natural diamonds. In addition, the introduction of synthetic rubies in the late 19th Century did not appear to have a permanent effect on the price of natural rubies.

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