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Our Managing Director Many foreigners have questions about the credibility of gem dealers in Thailand but Glickman says it is well-known in the gem & jewelry community as to who is reliable and who’s not. “In Thailand, we have a strong Gem & Jewelry Traders Association, and I would say that ninety-nine percent of our members are honorable people. They are very upset by criminals that take advantage of tourists,” he says.
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Glickman is one of five farang lawyers who have lifetime licenses to give legal advice in Thailand. David can appear in court, but not as the lawyer for the litigant. He’s a solicitor, not a barrister. Surprisingly David says that Thai judges are very honorable. “It is almost unheard of for a judge to take a bribe in Thailand,” he says. “The Thais are quite proud of their judges.”
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Commenting on the rash of gem scams that are prevalent in Thailand, David says, “Well, you know the old saying, ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t.’ Foreigners traveling here can be suffering from jet-lag, and culture shock. They have language difficulties and the touts are very shrewd. They go out of their way to be charming, and they are usually very good in English, or the language of the person they are trying to take advantage of. They will tell a few lies to build up their status e.g. say that they are teachers, or off-duty policemen. But they are con-men, they gain people’s confidence first, then they deceive them. Does David immediately know if a stone is legitimate? “No one can just look at a stone and tell if it is genuine or not,” he says. “Someone like myself, who has been handling gems for years, will have a strong feeling about whether a stone is legitimate or not. But the first thing you learn at the schools for gemology is to never sight identify. You must use the instruments, as one stone can easily mimic another and fool the human eye. So I don’t rely upon sight identification. We are also just a block away from one of the best gem labs in the world, the Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences.”
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He has also been fortunate
to have spent some time diving for sunken treasure, as well as diving for
sunken ships and aircraft from WWII in places like Truk Lagoon, Papua New
Guinea and Palau. To David, scuba diving is beyond being in another world.
“It is like being in another realm of existence. A diver is weightless, like
an astronaut, and in fact, every astronaut from every country must learn to
scuba dive because the effect is so much like being in outer space.” Although David will be seventy years old on his next birthday, he is a very active scuba diver. He learned to dive in Hawaii in 1965, and was then so keen on diving that he started a company with a few friends to do commercial work underwater, and he did a lot of diving for that company. To date, he has made more than 3,000 dives including dives in many remote places. He and some regular diving partners were the first to dive at many of Thailand’s most cherished diving spots e.g. Koh Phi Phi, the Similan Islands, Surin and the Burma Banks. David also enjoys diving because it is a non-competitive sport and divers are trained to look after each other and to help each other whenever it is necessary. He loves diving so much that even after 3,000 dives, he’s still looking forward to his next dive in the Andaman Islands with much anticipation. |
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