Istanbul is the only city in the world that stretches across two continents. Connecting Europe with Asia, the city straddles more than the Bosphorus River, it straddles cultures. As a child, Sevan Bicakci lived on a street with a church, mosque and temple – three different beliefs that serve as inspiration for the very enigmatic [...]
There’s a reason diamonds are a last-minute holiday shopper’s best friend, area jewelers say.
The No. 1 holiday choice: diamond earrings.
But there are other jewelry options that may be worth keeping in mind. Among the gemstones that have stolen some of the diamond’s limelight in recent years: tourmaline, which, when finished and mounted, is brilliant red [...]
Jewelry is our current way to decorate ourselves. In ancient times, jewelry was mainly used to represent the status of the wearer, and ultimately, when that person was buried, all the jewels were buried along. The oldest piece of jewelry ever to be found dates back one hundred thousand years ago. The materials used for [...]
Most holiday shoppers aren’t thinking of the investment value of what they are buying.
But William P. from the Boston area figures that as long as he’s shopping for jewelry for his wife — she’ll celebrate her 30th birthday on Christmas Eve, a week before the couple’s fifth wedding anniversary — he might as well keep [...]
The sale of Burmese gems has become the target of a growing boycott following the violent crackdown of pro-democracy protesters in Burma in September. While Burma’s ruling military government holds another gem auction, the market for those precious stones is getting smaller. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports from New York, more and more jewelry retailers [...]
Diamond mining company Gem Diamonds and the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho have named the 493-carat white diamond recovered in early September the “Letseng Legacy,” after its place of discovery.
The diamond, ranked as the world’s 18th largest rough diamond, was discovered in Lesotho’s Letseng le Terai mine. Letseng Diamonds, which is 70 percent owned [...]
One of the rarest gems in the world, a flawless blue diamond, has sold for US$7.98 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, making it the most expensive gemstone in the world, per carat, sold at auction.
After intense bidding, the 6.04 carat, internally flawless blue diamond fetched $HK61.9 million, or US$1.32 million per carat. [...]
