Greendale Diamonds is owned by Max Barker F.G.A. (G.B.) who has spent over thirty years in the business and is part of South Africa’s leading and longest-established Diamond dealing companies.

Max has had consultations with Queens and Kings and leaders of states from around the world. Max started studying gemmology in the early 1970 s, and was awarded a fellow of the gemmological association of Great Britain in 1979. In 1980 he started one of the first independent diamond grading laboratories in Johannesburg.

Involved in the exportation of diamonds to all corners of the globe, the company traded as Diamond Supply Corporation.

As an exporter and trader of diamonds his expertise is on polished diamonds, with a deep knowledge and love for fancy coloured diamonds. Over the years customers have come from far and wide, including the prime minister of China, various members of royal families, doyens of the business communities, and movie stars. A prominent American businessman devoted three pages of his autobiography on the pleasant dealings and interesting times he had in Max's company.

Please contact Max for anything wanted or to be known about loose polished diamonds, pricing, qualities, various cuts, new styles and old, the repair of damaged stones, and or the recutting of the old miner style cuts, to the new modern brilliant styles, valuations, and any other associations with the product.