Properly storing jewelry does not need to be expensive. Some jewelry comes in boxes or pouches which you can continue to use. You can find other reasonable solutions with a little creativity. • Since the idea is to isolate each jewel from one another, an easy and effective solution is to wrap each piece in [...]
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The most important, basic rule: Each item of jewelry should be isolated from others. If it is not possible to isolate each jewel (e.g., pendants hanging from a bracelet or necklace), then the items should be immobilized so that they do not rub past each other.
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A common, and sure, way to ruin the value of your collection of jewels is to store them improperly. Jewelry is made up of stones and metals of various hardnesses. When thrown together, they will easily scratch, abrade and crack each other. Perfection is highly valued in gemstones, and a valuable, perfect stone can quickly [...]
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Agate : part of the chalcedony quartz family of minerals, most common light gray-blue to beige or reddish to brown layers of color but also available dyed green, moss, orange, dark reds, and mixed colors, hardness 6.5 – 7, the alternative birthstone for September and May. Amber : an organic fossil resin from amber pine [...]
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This is really a personal preferance on the buyers part, here are some definitions to help you determine the quality versus price: Karat – the pureness of gold 24 KT is pure gold, 10 KT is 10 parts pure gold and 14 parts other metals, not to be confused with carat weight. Vermeil – heavy [...]
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Natural stones can be exquisitely beautiful but tend to be expensive for the best grade stones. Treatments can enhance the beauty some stones while keeping their cost down. BE CAREFUL certain treatments may make a stone more appealing to look at, but sometimes these treatments wear off. Dyeing a stone to enhance the color, change [...]
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Semi-precious stones are weighed both in carats (C) and grams (g). It is the preferance of the seller on which if any that they use. An easy conversion for : carats to grams is to multiply the carat weight by 0.20 grams ex. 5 C X 0.20 g = 1 gram grams to carats is [...]
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If you or a loved one was born in June now is the time to buy an Alexandrite. The prices have never been lower. Discovered in 1830 in Russia and named after Czar Alexander II, who was then Crown Prince of Russia, Alexandrite appears to change color under different forms of light. It can look [...]
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Do’s and Don’ts for your new pearls 1) Don’t wear your pearls in the pool, tanning, while you’re working out, constructing, getting ready to go out, or working around any chemicals or pesticides. Pearls come from living creatures and like any offspring, are fragile. The nacre which coats the pearl and gives it luster and [...]
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Chrysocolla is attractive blue-green that provides a unique color to the mineral world and is well known in the semi-precious stone trade. Chyrsocolla is perhaps more appropriately a mineraloid than a true mineral. Most of the time it is amorphous meaning that it does not have a coherent crystalline structure. Chrysocolla forms in the oxidation [...]
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