Welcome to my travelogue, short uplifting features highlighting wonderful non-touristy, off the beaten track locales I’ve discovered in my quest to…
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Amsterdam and the Autocrat, Part I
Peter the Great Portrait Medallion, diamonds, silver and enamel. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Peter the Great of Russia shared my passion…
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Mad About Miniatures
I fell in love with Dutch silver miniatures by chance, the same way I succumbed to Russian imperial works of…
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Cushion-cut Diamond Gold Royal Crown Pin, 19th century
https://mariebetteley.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/BR140-2.mp4 When I saw this brooch I loved its shape. Plus there’s a beautiful cushion cut diamond in the middle…
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Tucson Takeaway 2024
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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