Jewelry Glossary Jewelry - objects such as rings and necklaces, made of precious materials, which people wear as decoration. They are usually made of gold and silver and decorated with pearls or precious stones (rare valuable stone, such as a diamond, a ruby, an emerald etc.) There are different sorts of jewelry: 1. Some of them people wear on [...] Sothebys New York Jewelry Sale Results Tapping into the holiday buying frenzy, Sotheby’s New York held its sale of Magnificent Jewels on December 6, 2006. The auction sold 79 percent by lot and 62,8 percent by value, garnering $18,419,280 against a presale estimate of $22 million to $29 million. The one day sale also included Castellani & Giuliano — The Judith H. [...] Jewelry Business: Market Value Each piece of metalwork you do has two values: intrinsic value (what the raw materials are worth) and market value (the value added by your labor and the demand for your work). The theory of mass production is that very little is added to the intrinsic value, since not much labor goes into the manufacture [...] Jewelry Making: Cost of Material For most of us, cost can be a deciding factor when choosing which metal to use. Silver is far less expensive to work with than either gold or platinum, and for those who like to experiment with techniques, silver is the obvious choice. There is something intimidating about trying out a new technique on several [...] The History of Beads As most of us know adornment has been around since Neanderthal man. Bits of bone, rock, shell, even flowers and leaves made up accessories for both man and woman. Glass came into existence at a much later time. Some where around 2340-2180 B.C. These excavations took place in Mesopotamia, and in the Caucasus region, [...] |