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FAMOUS JEWELRY IN THE MOVIES, VOL. 6: The Other Boleyn Girl Ok, another film we haven’t seen but still yet another piece of gorgeous...

Famous Jewelry In The Movies, Vol. 6: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes You may or may not believe this, but we have yet to ever watch  . We know,...

Famous Jewelry In The Movies, Vol 5: How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days If you've been following along, we've covered some big ground in this...

Famous Jewelry In The Movies, Vol 4: Gone With The Wind When thinking of famous jewelry in the movies, Gone With The Wind isn’t a film...

Famous Jewelry In The Movies, Vol. 3: "Breakfast At Tiffany's" We couldn’t have a series on jewelry in the movies without talking about...

Famous Jewelry In The Movies, Vol 2: Pretty Woman Unless you were under a rock in the 90’s, you saw it. In the theater. Replayed on TBS...

In the movie, the now eponymous necklace, which was called La Coeur de la Mer (Heart of the Sea) was modeled after the Hope Diamond but was in fact not a diamond at all.

The year is 1837. President Andrew Jackson is in power, until he is succeeded in March by Martin VanBuren. The state of Michigan is...

Today we start a series exploring the various jewelry houses that have become household names and legends in the jewelry arts. Their...

Greece. Home to blue skies and even bluer waters. Gorgeous islands and, theoretically at least, those epic Greek Gods we all learned...

It is often said, "Necessity is the mother of invention." And in our next historical jewelry manufacturing period, that couldn't ring...

So, let's see where we are in our series about the different historical periods in jewelry manufacturing. We left off with the French...

So far in our series focusing on the various periods and eras of jewelry production, we've been pretty myopic in looking at the impact...

Continuing on as we chronologically explore the various eras in vintage and antique jewelry, we're leaving Queen Victoria behind and...

Oh, October. How did you get to be so lucky? You have as your birthstone what some call the gem of all gemstones: the opal. Opals, which...

As we continue to meander down the chronological lane from one jewelry era to another, today we're making a pit stop at the Victorian...

Emerald Isle. Emerald City. Emerald Coast. Emerald Buddha. Emerald Ash Borer (we may have taken that last one too far, we realize)....

Today marks the start of a series talking about the different periods in jewelry. We've glazed over them with a paragraph dedicated to...

We know them as the birthstone for September and for their deep blues to medium violets. But there's so much more to sapphires than that....

Martha Stewart knows weddings. That's a given. But does she (and/or her team) know engagement rings? VINTAGE engagement rings to be...