Reading a lot: the check marks, the verification levels and the passport

Three lines under every card

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Every card in the shop ③, and the top of every lot page, carries up to three short lines, always in the same order. A tick (✓) is something that is true today. A ring (○) is the seller's word, or something you can add when you buy.

1. 1.
   The seller. “Seller verified” — a business whose company registration and director our desk has checked. “Owner verified (ID)” — a private owner whose identity has been checked.
2. 2.
   The stone. One of:

   • “Stone verified” — checked by hand: someone on our side held the stone and matched it to its report.
   • “Report checked with the lab” — the report was confirmed against the laboratory's own records. The stone itself has not been seen.
   • “Lab certificate shown” — the listing shows a lab certificate. That is the seller's paper, not our check.
   • “Stone as declared by the seller” — nothing about the stone has been checked yet.
3. 3.
   What it has, or what you can add. “In custody” or “Passport” when the stone has them; otherwise “Custody available”, “Passport available” or “Independent lab check available”.

The stamp: four levels

On a lot page, the section “What's checked” shows a stamp and one plain sentence about what it is worth.

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Each report on the lot is listed with its state ②: “Cross-check confirmed”, “Cross-check pending” or “Not cross-checked”. A cross-check means the laboratory's own records were asked about the report number — not that someone looked at a scan of the paper.

You will also meet three words for a lot as a whole: “Full verification” (everything that applies is checked — for a loose stone, a verified seller and the stone checked by hand), “Partly verified” (something beyond the seller is checked) and “Seller-declared” (only the seller is).

The passport and its public page

From one tick (✔) up, a stone has a public record anyone can open without an account — under $10,000 it is called the Everystone Registry record, from $10,000 the Everystone Passport. On the lot page it sits under “What's checked”, with a QR code ③: “The stone's public record — scan it, no login.”

The public page shows the stone's identity, its lab reports, origin and treatment, its provenance and its custody status. It says plainly what it leaves out — the owner, valuations and documents.

A Seller-declared stone has no public page and no QR code. That is deliberate: a passport for a stone nobody has checked would claim what nobody knows.

Price bands: T0, T1, T2

A small badge next to the price ④ marks the band. Under $10,000 is T0 (Registry), from $10,000 to $30,000 is T1 (Passport) and from $30,000 is T2 (Custody). The band decides what you can add at checkout — see Lab check, Passport or custody. The badge alone does not mean the stone already has a Passport or is in custody; the three lines above tell you that.

Filter and sort by what is checked

In the shop, the verification filter ① has “Fully verified only”, “Anything checked beyond the seller” and “In custody only”. The sort “Most verified” ② puts stones in custody first, then stones checked by hand, then stones whose report was checked, then the rest.

Common problems

“Lab certificate shown” — so the stone is checked?

No. The listing shows a certificate, which is the seller's paper. To have the stone itself checked before it reaches you, add the independent lab check or a Passport at checkout.

A lot has no passport page

It is Seller-declared. Its page says what is and is not checked, and you can still add a check when you buy.

A lot says “Reserved”

“Reserved — another buyer is completing the purchase of this stone.” If their order ends unpaid, the stone comes back to the shop.