Vivacious vintage will spice up every outfit

Vintage jewelry adds a different touch to any ensemble. With bright colors and amusing designs, this is a sure fire way to add a bit of glamour to the plain attire that you might wear to a business meeting or so forth.

Who said that old jewelry wasn’t in style anymore? They were lying to you as many people prefer vintage jewelry as the pieces to spruce up something that you have had lying in the closet. Some vintage jewelry is designed for different seasons or different holidays while some reflect personal interests. Whatever you are looking for for that drab outfit, vintage jewelry is the way to go.

From: www.jewelsfile.com

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Trend Watch: Honoring the Sentiment: Vintage & Antique Jewelry

This past Friday, January 23, 2009, on The View on ABC-TV, to the delight of the viewing audience, Barbara Walters talked a bit about her jewelry. She is well-known for wearing some extraordinary pieces, and Friday’s choices did not disappoint.

The subject of her jewelry came up because earlier in the week, she had lost the top of an antique ring from the 1800’s, a favorite ring that she professed to wearing all the time. When she got home one day, she found she was inexplicably wearing a flat, ugly ring, and it was only when she returned to the television studio and found the dazzling top of the ring sitting on the edge of a dressing table that she realized her ring had come apart and some thoughtful individual had set the ring top on the table rather than pocketing it. This goes into the category of “people are good,” noted Walters.

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Elton John Sells His J Brooch

Sir Elton John is a notably famous musician, whose fortune has led him to acquire a large collection of jewelry including a sizable number of diamond pieces. Those who know anything about Elton John know that he does not endorse subtlety in either fashion or jewelry. His pieces are large, beautiful and expensive.Elton sold his famous “J” brooch along with some other pieces at Bonhams Auction House on the 25th of September, 2008. The brooch was made famous when it was worn in the 1988 music video “I Don’t Wanna Go on With You Like That.” The song fared well in the United States reaching a Billboard number 2 spot. Elton John fans across the globe are familiar with the stunning J shaped brooch. But for those interested in buying the jewel who aren’t so familiar, a photo showing Elton John wearing the brooch will accompany its sale. This also serves as proof of authenticity for the future sales of the piece.

The 1930’s era Art Deco brooch has brilliant-cut and baguette-cut diamonds with oval-cut and circular-cut sapphires. It was created in 1935 and has an estimated value of between $22 and $27 thousand. The brooch is truly an exquisite piece of jewelry that is both valuable for the jewels that comprise it, as well as for its story. The piece is entirely unique, and its new owner will own a beautiful piece of music history.

Read the whole story at: www.abazias.com

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Jewelry and makeup in ancient Persia

By Hedieh Ghavidel, Press TV, Tehran

Acheamenid Jewelry

Archaeological finds in Iran show that women and men applied makeup and arrayed themselves with ornaments approximately 10,000 years ago, a trend which began from religious convictions rather than mere beautification motivations.



Archaeologists have discovered various instruments of make-up and ornamental items in the Burnt City, which date back to the third millennium BCE.

The caves of the Bakhtiari region, where the first hunter-gatherers settled at the end of the ice age, have yielded not only stone tools, daggers and grindstones but also several stones covered with red ocher.

Parthian goat-shaped vessel

As no cave paintings have been found in this area, researchers believe the people of this era bepainted their faces and bodies with ocher.

Other caves in Kermanshah have also yielded several samples of animal bones with traces of paint. Again, as the cave walls are undecorated, it can be inferred that the residents used these bones as ornaments.

The tombs found in Kerman have all yielded white powder made of lead or silver suggesting the people of this region were the first to use white powder for beautification purposes.

Jewelry found in the Burnt City, Iran

Archaeologists also believe that both women and men used a red powder found inside small saucer-like vessels unearthed in some tombs to redden their cheeks.

The masks and statues unearthed at Haft Tappeh in Khuzestan, show the people of the time blackened and extended their eyebrows, reddened their lips and cheeks and lined their eyes up to the eyebrows.

Archaeological finds dating back to the first millennium BCE, show the diversity and abundance of cosmetics and ornaments in this period, suggesting that this era was the peak of the art of decoration and makeup in Iran.

A Parthian Gold Bead

Ten thousand year old discoveries from a number of caves, especially Mazandaran's Huto and Kamarband caves and Kermanshah's Bisotoun Cave, reveal that women and men adorned themselves with pelts, shells, colorful stones and the teeth and bones of hunted animals.

Metal, bone, shell, stone and glass rings, bracelets, armlets, anklets, hair and dress pins, circlets, chokers, ornamental buttons, various ear and fingernail cleaning tools are among the frequent finds from this era.

Achaemenid gold necklace with seal

Agate, pearls and other semi-precious stones have been discovered in the Burnt City, and the quantity of unearthed necklaces, bracelets and rings show that the inhabitants were fully aware of the value of ornaments and their application.

Archaeological excavations in central Iran at Tappeh Si Arg in Kashan and Tappeh Hessar in Damghan have unveiled the same extent of makeup materials and ornamental ware.

Decorative beads made from pearl, turquoise, copper, silver, gold and unbaked or baked lime from 4,600 BCE to 1,800 BCE are the most frequent finds at these sites.

Achaemenid jewelry

Rings, necklaces, crowns, earrings, foot ornaments, bracelets and even metal beads adorned with what is thought to be family insignia all testify to the mastery of their artisans.

Tappeh Hessar graves, even those belonging to children, all contain an array of such objects.

Cave dwellers used water as the first mirror. Gradually as man learned to melt and polish metals, he crafted mirrors.

A pair of Gold Earrings ( 500-300 BCE)

The oldest man-made mirrors discovered, which date back 4500 years, have been found mostly in Ilam, Luristan and Azarbaijan and are ornamented with mythological figures carved into their handles and backs.

In the excavation of the Sassanid tombs of Azarbaijan, two sheets of glass with tar and silver-coated backs were discovered, which archaeologists believe were used like modern mirrors.

These sheets of glass/ancient mirrors like many other Iranian treasures from the past have been housed in the British Museum.

An Achaemenid seal housed in the Louvre depicts a fully made-up aristocratic woman looking at her reflection in a mirror while a maid presents her with a hairpiece.

The first combs found in Burnt City excavations are as old as 4,700 years and are mostly wooden with embossed decorations.

Studies suggest the women of Sistan used combs for both decoration and functional means.

Persepolis image

One ancient statue shows a queen with her hair collected behind her head in a crescent.

Archaeologists believe women used the various springs found in the tombs in Ilam's Poshtkoh cemetery to wrap their hair. Hair wrappers with a bejeweled middle or outside rod have also been discovered in Ilam's Chenar graveyard.

Persepolis images suggest kings and soldiers used extensions in their beards and hair.

Achaemenid white agate bead necklace ( 550-330 BCE)

Parthians wore pendants, tiny pins, rings, circlets, perfume, precious stones and clay or glass beads to banish ill omens.

Sassanid women were so attached to makeup and ornaments that they were often buried with them. In this era, the use of semi-precious ornamental objects became popular, an example of which is the belt buckle adorned with pink agate which is housed at the Wisebaden Museum.

Sassanid carnelian stamp seal

Achaemenid jewelry was decorated with mythological, plant and animal shapes. For example, bracelets were thin and the two ends were adorned by lion, ram, goose, deer or snake heads.

The intricacy of some of the jewelry unearthed still amazes archaeologists as to how people from ancient times designed and produced ornaments of such delicacy.

From: www.presstv.ir


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Trend Watch: Waisted at the 2009 Golden Globes

While extraordinary necklaces, dazzling bracelets and the usual panoply of sparkling earrings of all shapes and sizes were in abundance at this year’s Golden Globes, another trend was worn in a most attractive and interesting way by the woman of the evening, the most winning Kate Winslet.

Winslet wore a spectacular bracelet of five rows containing 47 carats of diamonds as well as diamond earrings by Chopard, but it was the jewels at her waist of her black Yves St. Laurent gown that have quite captured my fancy. The waistline of her gown was accented with an exquisite diamond pendant brooch, reportedly also by Chopard. This detail at the waist presents an exciting, adaptable style.

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Burglar fooled!

Instead of the usual background information on antique jewelry, we would like to draw your attention to a less pleasant but very important aspect of jewelry in general: security and theft prevention. At the end of the last year we received a mail from a customer that she allowed us to share with you.

Dear Tania and Elkan, I have enjoyed both of you this year. I wanted to let you know a triumphant story. My house was robbed on December 21st. You both know my love of jewelry and most of my pieces are one only and not replaceable. I have added the link to the jewelry box that saved my entire collection. The robber was not even aware that it was a jewelry box. You have many customers like myself that have large collections I would suspect. Maybe my story will help someone else. The police officers that responded said it was a very good decoy. Cordially, Robin

So this time the story had an happy ending but not everybody is as lucky as Robin. We therefore strongly suggest to have your jewelry insured and appraised and that you store those appraisals in another place then the jewelry itself.

In case you decide not to have your jewelry appraised then you can also make photocopies of your jewelry next to a ruler (in color is best but black/white is good too). It's easy, alway in focus and you don't have to describe as much. From all your jewelry you take a scan from both top and bottom.

In our next issue we will return to interesting subjects on antique jewelry and we will dive a bit in the history and symbolism of Valentine's day. Meanwhile feel free to browse our entire collection.


Or see our: love-token-jewelry, latest acquisitions, jewelry glossary or style overview

Antiqualy yours and happy browsing!

The Adin team www.adin.be

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Joseph “Dr. Joe” Sataloff, 89, Art Nouveau Jewelry Expert

Gary Roskin, G.G., FGA, Senior Editor -- JCK-Jewelers Circular Keystone, 1/5/2009 10:12:00 AM

World renowned expert on Art Nouveau Jewelry, Dr. Joseph Sataloff, died on Sept. 26. He was 89 years old.

Dr. Sataloff of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., a Philadelphia suburb, was first and foremost a physician, an Otolaryngologist. He was an accomplished surgeon in micro-surgical ear operations, and a university hospital professor. He made historic contributions in the early stages of hearing conservation, including as scientific advisor to then President Nixon in developing hearing protection standards for the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

In addition to his fame in the medical field however, Dr. Sataloff was an international expert in antique and estate jewelry, specifically in Art Nouveau.

An author of several books on hearing and hearing loss, Sataloff’s book titled, Art Nouveau Jewelry: A Practical Guide to Its History and Beauty, including a compendium of international hallmarks, is still considered the definitive reference standard for antique and estate jewelers.

“He literally and figuratively wrote the book on Art Nouveau,” says Diana Singer, D&E Singer, antique, period, and estate jewelry expert in New York.

“Dr. Joe,” as he was called, was a passionate collector of the finest and most classic examples of Art Nouveau jewelry. Over the years, pieces from his jewelry collection have been donated to museums, and have gone on tour.

“He was one of the prominent collectors of Art Nouveau jewelry,” Singer said. “He had a deep and profound respect for it, long before it became the collectable fashion.”

“The collection,” says Joyce Jonas, “is not to be believed. It is immeasurable. He started buying in the 1950’s.” Jonas, jewelry historian and president of Joyce Jonas & Associates, in New York, personally views the collection as “staggering.”

“Dr. Joe and Ruth generously donated to several museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,” writes Janet Zapata. Zapata, jewelry historian, consultant, and author of several books on the decorative arts, wrote the memorial on Sataloff for the American Society of Jewelry Historians Fall newsletter. “Dr. Joe was not only passionate about jewelry, but also encouraged scholars and anyone interested to pursue their passion, always ready to answer a question or tell a story. He loved life,” writes Zapata, “and it was infectious.”

“In addition to Art Nouveau, he was an expert in jade, Faberge, and hallmarks,” Jonas said. And he was driven to sharing his jewelry knowledge with others. Jewelry Camp was Sataloff’s creation. Started in 1979, the Maine conference on Antique and Period Jewelry and Gemstones, otherwise known as Jewelry Camp, brought in experts from all over the world. “He wanted to educate people,” says Jonas. Jewelry camp was started, as Jonas said, “to fill what Dr. Joe felt was a void in jewelry scholarship.” It was an opportunity to learn, make friends, and simply enjoy. “He relished every minute of life; and had a true passion for people and jewelry. He’d personally greet everyone by name, making them feel special. He was a wonderful man. Even when he was giving you advice, he was doing so as a friend.”

Jonas bought Jewelry Camp from Sataloff in late 1992. Camp now continues as The Antique Jewelry & Art Conference, www.jewelrycamp.org, under the new ownership of Edward and Sandy Lewand.

Dr. Sataloff received his bachelor’s degree in 1940 from the University of Pennsylvania, and then graduated with a medical degree from Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, in 1943.

He is survived by his wife Ruth, daughter Jody and son Robert, and five grandchildren.

For other Dr. Joe obituaries, log onto http://www.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/30478004.html
http://www.caohc.org/updatearticles/fall2008/sataloff.php
http://www.center4jewelrystudies.org/

From: www.jckonline.com

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Consumers purchase antiques in struggling economy

Miami, Fla. -- Consumers are continuing to purchase antiques, including jewelry, paintings, furniture and collectibles, as investment opportunities during this struggling economy, according to DMG World Media.

"Our clients have confirmed to us that individuals are continuing to purchase antiques, sculptures, art and jewelry as investments," DMG World Media Show Director Andrea Canady said in a media release. "We're featuring these true treasures all in one location at The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, where consumers can view, touch and purchase these invaluable items."

Some of the items that will be available at The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, to be held from Jan. 22-26, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Fla., include rare and unusual historical art collections and antiques from around the world such as 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century furniture, original paintings and works of art spanning more than three centuries, fine American and European silver, 19th- and 20th-century art glass such as Galle, Lalique and Tiffany, as well as world-renowned porcelain such as Meissen and KPM.

For show information about the show, call (239) 732-6642 or visit DMG World Media's Web site, DMGAntiqueShows.com.

The Original Miami Beach Antique Show is just one of more than 300 trade exhibitions, consumer shows and fairs that DMG World Media produces every year in the United States, the United Kingdom and France.

From: www.nationaljewelernetwork.com

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850-pound emerald at center of dispute

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- An 850-pound emerald said to be worth as much as $370 million is in the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department while a court decides who really owns it, a spokesman for the sheriff said.

This enormous raw emerald was being kept in a Las Vegas, Nevada, warehouse.

The "Bahia Emerald" -- one of the largest ever found -- was reported stolen in September from a secured vault in South El Monte in Los Angeles County. The report was made by someone who claimed to own the giant gemstone, Los Angeles Sheriff's Lt. Thomas Grubb said.

Federal court papers showed the emerald has been at the center of a dispute between a California man who claimed ownership, a company he contracted with to sell it, and a potential buyer.

Detective work traced the Brazilian stone to a Las Vegas, Nevada, warehouse, where the person in possession claimed to be the rightful owner, Grubb said.

A federal judge ordered the sheriff to hold the 180,000-carat emerald until he can sort the case out, Grubb said.

Investigators suspect someone used falsified papers to remove the stone from the secured vault in California, although no criminal charges have been filed, Grubb said.

While Grubb said it was his understanding the stone had been appraised at $370 million, the value is unclear.

The company hired by the owner to sell it said in court papers it had received a $19 million offer, which the company wanted to accept.

It alleged the gemstone's owner then tried to go around the broker to sell the emerald to the same buyer for $75 million.

At one point, the emerald was listed for sale on eBay for a "buy it now" price of $75 million.

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Palm Beach Show Unveils Lecture Series

The Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show announced the lecture series program at its sixth annual event, being held, Feb. 14-17, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.

Art, jewelry and antique aficionados will have the opportunity to view and purchase from the extensive collections of more than 200 international exhibitors and attend lectures presented by an all-star line-up of knowledgeable and respected speakers on a variety of topics such as: “Tiffany Style: 170 Years of Design” by John Loring, Design Director of Tiffany & Co. and “The Art & Passion of the Italian Renaissance” with Contessa Maria Vittoria Colonna Rimbotti, President of Amici degli Uffizi and Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, USA.

“It has always been our goal to provide an environment that fosters the understanding and appreciation of antiques in addition to offering an enormous selection of high-quality items,” said Kris Charamonde co-owner and show manager. “We believe the lecture series enhances the total show experience and is well received by our guests each year.”

The lecture series is free and open to the public. Individual lectures take place twice daily at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

The lecture series is as follows:

Feb. 14
1 p.m., “Tiffany Glass and the Quest of Beauty” with Arlie Sulka, owner and managing director of Lillian Nassau LLC

3 p.m., “Tiffany Style: 170 Years of Design” with John Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co.

Feb. 15
1 p.m., “The Greatest Art Collectors of All Time” with Contessa Maria Vittoria Colonna Rimbotti, president of Amici degli Uffizi, Italy and Friends of the Uffizi Gallery, USA

3 p.m., “The Most Beautiful & Important Images of Florida: 1564-1838” with W. Graham Arader, owner of Arader Galleries

Feb. 16
1 p.m., “John L. Volk: A Remarkable Life” with Jane Day, president of Research Atlantica, Inc.

3 p.m., “Collecting Rarities in Silver: Every Treasure Tells a Story” with Spencer Gordon of Spencer Marks Ltd.

Feb. 17
1 p.m., “American Art: What’s Hot, What’s Not” with Debra Force, owner of Debra Force Fine Art Inc.

3 p.m., “Full Circle: Recurring Themes & Influences in 200 Years of Jewelry Design” with Simon Teakle, director of Estate Jewelry for Betteridge Jewelers.


From: www.palmbeachshow.com

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Russians Buy Jewelry, Hoard Dollars as Ruble Plunges

By Emma O’Brien and William Mauldin

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Moscow resident Tima Kulikov banked on the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, not the Kremlin, when he sold his biggest asset for cash.

The 31-year-old director of a social networking Web site initially agreed to sell his apartment for rubles, then cringed at the thought of the currency weakening as it sat in a lockbox pending settlement of the contract. It wasn’t until the buyer showed up with $250,000 stacked in old mobile-phone boxes and stuffed in his pockets that Kulikov closed the deal.

“The exchange rate we agreed on wasn’t great, but I did it because the money’s going to lie there for a month,” Kulikov said. “Put it this way, the ruble’s more likely to have problems than the dollar.”...

...For the burgeoning middle class, investments of choice range from electronics to gold jewelry. Evroset, Russia’s largest mobile-phone chain, is telling people to buy anything they can....

Read the whole story at: www.bloomberg.com

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Gold Rises to Eight-Week High as Dollar Slides; Silver Gains

By Pham-Duy Nguyen

Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Gold prices rose to the highest in almost eight weeks as a sliding dollar boosted the appeal of the precious metal as an alternative asset. Silver also gained.

Gold has jumped 9.9 percent this week as the dollar dropped 4 percent against a weighted basket of six major currencies. The metal reached a record in March as the greenback headed for an all-time low against the euro.

“The dollar seems to be under a lot of pressure and there’s still uncertainty to the economic outlook, and that’s giving a lift to gold,” said Stephen Platt, a commodity analyst at Archer Financial Services Inc. in Chicago. “Gold has held up better than any asset off the uncertain monetary outlook.”

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WorthPoint Adds Three Experts to Its International Team of Worthologists

ATLANTA, Dec 11, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- WorthPoint Corporation ( www.worthpoint.com) today announced that it has appointed three experts to its international team of Worthologists.

WorthPoint Worthologists are men and women with expertise and a passion for art, antiques and collectibles. Their backgrounds include auctioneering, appraising, publishing, teaching and consulting. What all Worthologists have in common is their ability to evaluate items to determine their history, significance and worth. They all adhere to a strict WorthPoint ethical code of conduct.

The three new Worthologists are:
Bradley Downs, of Woodstock, Georgia. Bradley is an expert in vintage modern design: affordable art deco, sculpture, pottery, mid-century modern furniture, lighting and accessories. With a background in commercial art and design from the Art Institute of Atlanta, Bradley is able to relate both to the technical and the aesthetic inherent in Post War Design, otherwise known as Mid Century Modern.

As a collector and dealer for the past 15 years, Bradley was instrumental in discovering and providing unique Mid Century Modern pieces to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and to well-known buyers such as Oprah Winfrey, Lenny Kravitz and Leigh Keno.

David Morrison Pike, of Nara, Japan. David is an expert in Japanese ceramics. He also creates his own line of Japanese ceramics. David has been apprenticed to Naoki Kawabuchi, a well known Japanese artist in the Nanban style of Japanese ceramics. David fires his own line of ceramics in his own kiln using the traditional approach to creating his own works of art at his home in Japan.
While conversant in all Japanese periods, David is particularly knowledgeable about the Momoyama period of Japanese ceramics, a period considered the Japanese Renaissance dating from 1467 to 1603. His knowledge of Japanese art also extends to the traditional Japanese screens, tea boxes, kimonos, lacquer-ware and ceremonial swords.

Elkan Wijnberg, of Antwerp, Belgium. Elkan is an expert in vintage jewelry. Elkan attended Vakschool Schoonhoven in the Netherlands and graduated in 1981 as a master goldsmith. He was especially skilled in designing jewelry, but soon gained worldwide recognition for repairing and restoring antique and vintage jewelry. A pioneer in Internet antique jewelry sales since 1999, Elkan has built a worldwide following for his specialist collection and intimate knowledge of Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Retro jewelry.

Elkan is the founder of Adin, a vintage jewelry dealership in Antwerp, diamond-trading capital of the world. He is an associate of the Belgian Chamber of Experts to the Courts of Justice and the American Society of Jewelry Historians. He supplied jewelry for the movie "The DaVinci Code" and to high profile shows sponsored by the High Council of Diamonds in Antwerp.

About WorthPoint
Atlanta-based WorthPoint Corp. is an Internet-based data-and-media company that offers a vast database of sales records on art, antiques and collectibles. Founded in 2007, WorthPoint has quickly become the world's largest social network for researching the worth of antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint helps collectors understand the worth of their items and provides expert advice from its international team of Worthologists on how to preserve or sell antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint recently acquired Dublin, Ohio-based GoAntiques, the oldest antiques-and-collectibles site on the Web.

SOURCE WorthPoint Corporation

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Rago Arts Estate Jewelry Auction Closed Yesterday

Well the auction hammers have been heard, and the estate jewelry auction has come to a close yesterday. Looks like the economy has affected this jewelry auction as well, since many lots sold for half of its expected price. The lots that I featured on my blog, however, went for more than expected. Whoever was the highest bidder for any of the auction lots is lucky to get such high quality estate jewelry. Did any of my readers bid? Win??

From: gemgossip.com

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Winkelen in Antwerpen

Antieke Sieraden

Adin is een firma met een breed spectrum aan activiteiten, maar met als specialisme de verkoop van 19de eeuwse Franse antieke juwelen. Adin heeft geregeld een voorraad van om en bij de 10.000 artikelen met prijzen variërend van $300 tot $1000, alhoewel Adin ook juwelen heeft gaande van $50 tot $50.000.

De juwelen die verkocht worden, werden allen gecontroleerd door een team van experten, en waar nodig in hun oorspronkelijke glorie hersteld. Alle juwelen zijn van een goede kwaliteit en een typisch voorbeeld van hun stijl en periode.

Lees meer op: antwerp-shopping.blogspot.com of bezoek de Adin site

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478-carat diamond goes for $18.4 million

Antwerp, Belgium - The 478-carat diamond recovered from an African mine in September has sold for $18.4 million and is expected to yield a polished stone of at least 200 carats.

Safdico, the manufacturing arm of high-end jeweler Graff Diamonds, outbid six other diamantaires to snatch up the stone, named "Leseli la Letseng" (the light of Letseng), at a tender in Antwerp, Belgium, recently, according to a release from Gem Diamonds Ltd.

The stone, recovered from the Letseng le Terai Mine in the African kingdom of Lesotho, is the 20th-largest rough diamond ever recovered and is believed to have outstanding color and clarity.

Read more at: www.nationaljewelernetwork.com

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Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry

The National Jewelry Institute is presenting "Masterpieces of Ancient Jewelry: Exquisite Objects from the Cradle of Civilization". The exhibit has pulled 135 pieces of jewelry from museums around the world, some more than 7,000 years old. The exhibit is open at the Forbes Galleries on Fifth Avenue, New York through December 31 and then will travel to The Field Museum in Chicago where it will be on display February 13-July 5, 2009.

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CMP Asia renamed its jewellery fairs in Hong Kong

CMP Asia announced today that its Hong Kong Jewellery & Watch Fair (JWF) is renamed as the Hong Kong Jewellery and Gem Fair (JGF) to better reflect the wider scope of the fairs. Both the June and September editions of the fair in 2009 will be using this new name.

"As the most important trade event for the global jewellery trade, the exhibit profile of the Fair is very different from 26 years ago when it started with the September edition," said Celine Lau, Director of Jewellery Fairs, CMP Asia. "Materials like diamonds, gemstones and pearls are of increasing importance alongside fine jewellery, so it is time to change the name of the Fair so that exhibitors and visitors know the profile of the Fair."

Launched in 1983, the September Fair is now Asia's largest international jewellery fair and one of the top three in the world. The September Fair is one of the few locally developed exhibitions that have grown to full international status. It has expanded from 100 exhibitors from 10 countries and regions, occupying 3,500 sqm of exhibition space in 1983 to 2,630 exhibitors from 44 countries and regions, on 81,000 sqm of exhibition space in 2008.

The fair has outgrown the full capacity of the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) for years with a long waiting list of new country pavilions, hundreds of new exhibitors and the expansion needs of existing exhibitors. When AsiaWorld-Expo (AWE), the second exhibition centre in Hong Kong opened in 2006, the fair began to use both venues to accommodate 2,500 exhibitors. Up to now, the Fair is still the only exhibition in Hong Kong that uses both venues.

As a result of the massive scale of the Fair, CMP Asia introduced in August a new sectorisation arrangement for the September Fair in 2009, which is similar to those of other large-scale global exhibitions. Next year, the HKCEC will showcase exhibitors with finished jewellery, while the AWE will display raw materials, such as loose diamonds, pearls and gemstones, and machinery. The major advantage of this approach is that it allows visitors to focus immediately on their areas of interest, enhancing efficiency in their visits which will directly benefit the exhibitors. "CMP Asia is the leading exhibition organiser in Asia with a 26-year track record of success in this market," added Celine Lau. "Given that Asia will soon become the world's biggest market for jewellery, we believe that the time is now to firmly establish the Fair's position as the number one exhibition of its kind in the world by introducing a precise product sectorisation."

The new initiative is well-received by the industry. The 2009 September edition of the Hong Kong Jewellery and Gem Fair will be expecting over 2,800 exhibitors, of which 47% will be fine finished jewellery exhibitors and 42% will be materials exhibitors, and taking up over 105,000 sqm of exhibition space. By then, the JGF at AsiaWorld-Expo will also become the largest Material Sourcing platform in Asia. Other key information about the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair:

Venue & Dates AsiaWorld-Expo

21-25 September, 2009
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

23-27 September, 2009

Exhibits Diamonds, Pearls, Gemstones and Technology
Fine Finished Jewellery

Exhibition Area 35,000 sqm
70,000 sqm


"The new fair name exactly reflects the exhibit profile of the Fair and helps to guide the 37,000 visitors to their target suppliers at the related venue for efficient sourcing," said Celine Lau.

The organiser has already pledged 50% more expenditure for a worldwide visitor marketing campaign to promote the September Fair 2009 and is confident that buyers will be well informed about the new arrangement. More frequent free luxury shuttle bus service travelling between two venues will also be arranged.

The June Hong Kong Jewellery and Gem Fair will be held at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre from June 18 - 21, 2009.

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Jewelry Remains a Popular Holiday Gift

About 72 percent of consumers have completed less than 10 percent of their shopping, compared with 2.2 percent of shoppers who say they have completely finished, according to a National Retail Federation survey.

NRF’s 2008 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey found that consumers will shop in similar gift categories as last year. Just over 19 percent of respondents said they will be buying jewelry as a gift, making it one of the more popular gift items this year.

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Mikimoto's new ad creative goes back to basics

New York-- Mikimoto has announced the launch of its new advertising creative, which reveals the simplicity and beauty of pearls.

The campaign, conceived and executed by the Prosper Assouline Creative Agency, showcases a series of six pearl images set in oyster shells as the backdrop. The oyster shells were hand-sourced from pearl farms around the world, and each jewelry piece is presented in the mother oyster that produces that type of pearl.

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