I just returned from my first trip to the amazing gem and mineral bonanza in Tucson Arizona. I had heard…
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1906-The Beginning of the End
It was 1906 when two of Russia’s greatest jewelers…. by now the patriarchs of the trade, Carl Fabergé on the left…
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Difficult to Pronounce…
Is the name of Leopold Pfisterer, a leading 18th century St Petersburg jeweler, but feast your eyes on the master’s…
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Behind Every Great Man…
Enter Catherine I, the first in a line of five Empresses of Russia in the 18th century whose reign, beginning…
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A Rare Find: A Russian Aquamarine Necklace and Ring Parure
The parure (a French word for jewelry set) was still the height of fashion not only in London, Paris and…
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What Learned in 2019, plus Exciting Events for 2020
After almost three decades in the jewelry business, I’m still learning. In fact, not a day goes by that I…
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