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Gem in the Spotlight: Tanzanite
… the violetish blue color pop (although technically speaking it doesn’t make it more blue, just less green). The amount of blue in a tanzanite is caused by the quantity of vanadium present. Raw, unheated tanzanite is sometimes marketed as… index of 1.69-1.70. History and Lore of Tanzanite Tanzanite was originally discovered in 1967 in Tanzania, near Mount Kilimanjaro, by a Maasai tribesman named Ali Juuyawatu, although the credit often goes to an Indian prospector named …
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Art Deco vs. Art Nouveau Style Jewelry
… 19th century (1890 – 1910), Art Nouveau emerged as a rebellion against the academic art of the time. It sought to bring the natural world into artistic design, emphasizing flowing lines, asymmetrical forms, and motifs inspired by plants…New Art” and it impacted almost every artistic medium. Jewelry makers embraced materials such as enamel, horn, and semi-precious stones to create pieces that were not just adornments but works of art. Many Art Nouveau jewelry pieces were …
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Anatomy of a Ring
Knowing the different parts of a ring can help you make a better decision when choosing a new ring and it can help you know when your ring may need … ring has a shank. This is the technical term for the band of metal that encircles the finger. There would be no ring without the shank. If the ring has a distinct design feature on the top part, the ring shank is generally said to start … point that the design stops. A jeweler will usually add or remove metal from the bottom of the shank when sizing a ring. This can sometimes be done so well that you would never know it was sized looking at the shank with your naked eye. …
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Synthetic Gems: The Whole Story
… rubies, sapphires and emeralds. These gems in high quality have put ownership beyond most people to justify the price. Just a one carat gem could cost $3,000 and more. Most of the time people don’t wear them as an engagement ring where people can spend over $10,000 routinely. The answer was to find a less expensive way to have these gems. It took over a hundred years and millions of dollars of research to create what nature can produce. Man made gems come in many forms…
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Gem in the Spotlight: Alexandrite
…Stunning color change on a natural alexandrite. Alexandrite History and Lore Alexandrite was first found in the Ural Mountains in Russia in the 1830s. When it was first discovered by a Finnish mineralogist, he mistook it for emerald … is still being mined today in Sri Lanka and Brazil, very few compare to the quality of those found in the Ural Mountains. While alexandrite doesn’t have a several thousand-year-old history like ruby, it quickly took the world by storm. …
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How to Value Inherited Jewelry
…, is a “caveat emptor” or “buyer beware” area of life. How a small polished rock can be worth the same amount as a car or a house will never be understood by some people. A big reason for this is that evaluating jewelry and arriving at an …their offer can be significantly lower than even the intrinsic value of a piece. We have even heard of cases where a ring with a one carat diamond and $50 in scrap gold was valued at $50 by these operations. The intrinsic values for the …
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Star White Gold
… grade 1 is premium. This means that when white gold is made, it can be yellowish to light yellow. When white gold rings are new they are coated with a white metal called rhodium. Rhodium is a metal very similar to platinum and rhodium …? Because they don’t know what the true color of the jewelry is when they buy it. I have seen a yellow gold ring heavily plated to look white. This was a true 14 karat yellow gold made to look white and it worked for a while. What the …
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The Birthstones
…lore surrounding garnets is that it protects the wearer from nightmares, promotes long-lasting love, and prevents hearing difficulties. Learn more about Garnet and Tasvorite Garnet February’s Birthstone: Amethyst Amethyst, transparent … the Middle Ages. It was, in particular, considered to be the stone of bishops and bishops still often wear amethyst rings. The Greek work “amethystos” basically can be translated as “not drunken.” Amethyst was considered to be a strong …
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Gem in the Spotlight: Sapphire
… sacred and was worn by priests to show their connection to the sky and heaven. Sapphires were set in the Bishop’s ring as a symbol of unity between the priest, the sky and heaven. Sapphire has been associated with divine favor. The … Anglo-Saxons from 1042-1066, met a beggar one day. King Edward had nothing of value on him except for his sapphire ring, which he generously gave to the beggar. The beggar was really a messenger from God, who later returned the ring to …
